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tjd
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Impactful Individual

HIdden Local Date Table

Using DAX studio, I looked at my PBI Desktop tables and noticed that I have 3 hidden LocalDateTable tables.  Is this supposed to be happening?  How does one go about unhiding a hidden date table and deleting it?

 

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pqian
Microsoft Employee
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Yes that is expected. Those are the date tables backing your Date/Time columns. You can disable this by going into Options->Current File->Data Load->Time Intelligence


@pqian wrote:

Yes that is expected. Those are the date tables backing your Date/Time columns. You can disable this by going into Options->Current File->Data Load->Time Intelligence


pqians hint is also very valuable for another problem: after the last pbi - update I encountered the issue that formulas referring to date-columns didn't work anymore ("LocalDateTable_ .. contains an error"). Disabling Time Intelligence did the trick!

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