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5 years ago
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Handling two date formats

Hello,   I have a kinda big PowerBI file where about a dozen tables are based on one Folder of CSV files. The system providing these CSV files now switched the date column from DD.MM.YYYY to YYYY-M...
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    Jihwan_Kim
    5 years ago

    Hi, Anonymous 

    Please correct me if I wrongly understood your question.

     

    If each file has a different format type in the DATE column, then, in my opinion, the best way to deal with it is by using Power Query in Power BI and change it by using the option LOCALE. This will make all files have a standard format in the DATE column.

     

     

    Hi, My name is Jihwan Kim.

    If this post helps, then please consider accept it as the solution to help other members find it faster.

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Jihwan_Kim
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5 years ago

Hi, Anonymous 

Please correct me if I wrongly understood your question.

 

If each file has a different format type in the DATE column, then, in my opinion, the best way to deal with it is by using Power Query in Power BI and change it by using the option LOCALE. This will make all files have a standard format in the DATE column.

 

 

Hi, My name is Jihwan Kim.

If this post helps, then please consider accept it as the solution to help other members find it faster.