How do I show mixed data types in a column

[huonghill]

Hi, 

In the SharePoint data source, business has mixed data types Percentage, and Whole Number.  When the data is brought into SQL Server, data type is converted to decimal. 

My goal is to show the data in PowerBI as it is shown in SharePoint. I tried Format() to format datat type, but it came out as "25%, 100%, 300%". That is not the result I want. Can someone please tell me what I should do in this situation? 

Thank you in advance! 

[MattAllington · Accepted solution]

Power BI is a database - it requires all data in a column to be the same data type. You could use FORMAT to change the visual display, but you will need to share more details about your data model, table structure and visualisation needs if you want some help doing this. 

or you could just load the data as text (which is probably what SharePoint is doing).