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anileshknpowerb
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How to show case insensitive data in powerbi

Hi,

 

I have a table EMPLOYEE that has 3 columns, ID, NAME and SALARY.

In Database I inserted 4 records as shown below.

 

ID                 NAME           SALARY

--------------------------------------

101               Employee      2000

102               eMployee      3000

103               EMPLOYEE     4000

104               employee       5000

 

When I create a report in powerbi desktop to show NAME and SALARY, it shows the NAME as "Employee" for all 4 rows. I want it to show as per Database. How to fix this issue?

 

Thanks

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az38
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Community Champion

Hi @anileshknpowerb 

Infortunately, Power Bi and DAX are case insensitive.

you could use workaround from here https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2019/10/06/power-bi-and-case-sensitivity/

 


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Coordin8
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I think Chris Webb's BI Blog: Power BI And Case Sensitivity Chris Webb's BI Blog (crossjoin.co.uk) mentions that Power Query is case sensitive whereas DAX is not. So, for example, a table in Power Query will look like this:

Coordin8_0-1614089798988.png

However, within DAX, it looks like this:

Coordin8_1-1614089798990.png

From which you can see that DAX has ignored the change in case in rows 2 and 5.

amitchandak
Super User
Super User

Check the data in the import view. Is it in the same case as the database.

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luapdoniv
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Resolver II

Using the ID should resolve your issues. Can you share the output you are seeing now.

Maybe it's coz of the summarization level.

az38
Community Champion
Community Champion

Hi @anileshknpowerb 

Infortunately, Power Bi and DAX are case insensitive.

you could use workaround from here https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2019/10/06/power-bi-and-case-sensitivity/

 


do not hesitate to give a kudo to useful posts and mark solutions as solution
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