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mdrammeh
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9 years ago
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IF Statement using Power Query

Hello,   I am trying to write an IF statement to capture the following dates. I have and excel spreadsheet withs millions of records. For one of the columns in my spreadsheet, I want to create a ne...
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  • MarcelBeug's avatar
    MarcelBeug
    9 years ago

    Try this code:

     

    = if [DT_SCHED] < #date(2017,6,1) then "DELIVERY DATE JUNE 1ST" else if [DT_SCHED] < #date(2017,12,31) then "DELIVERY DATE DECEMBER 1ST" else null

     

    PQ is case sensitive and if...then...else is all lower case, just like null.

     

    Also mind your boundaries: in your information, June 1st is undefined; in the code above it returns December 1.

    Likewise, December 31, 2017 will return null, according to the specifications provided.

     

    How can you have millions of rows in Excel? As far as I know, Excel has a maximum of 1,048,576 rows

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MarcelBeug
Community Champion
9 years ago

Try this code:

 

= if [DT_SCHED] < #date(2017,6,1) then "DELIVERY DATE JUNE 1ST" else if [DT_SCHED] < #date(2017,12,31) then "DELIVERY DATE DECEMBER 1ST" else null

 

PQ is case sensitive and if...then...else is all lower case, just like null.

 

Also mind your boundaries: in your information, June 1st is undefined; in the code above it returns December 1.

Likewise, December 31, 2017 will return null, according to the specifications provided.

 

How can you have millions of rows in Excel? As far as I know, Excel has a maximum of 1,048,576 rows

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Phil_Seamark
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

Perhaps the millions of rows are in Power Pivot??

 

In anycase, if you have millions of rows, perhaps it's a good time to get a database. :)