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paulphe
8 years agoFrequent Visitor
Lab 1: Exercise 2 for DAT207X edX Course
I am having an small problem here specifically in Step 4, bullet point 2; "Select to combine (combined binaries) the content of those 4 files, leave the default settings, and click OK." and bullet po...
- 8 years ago
Hi paulphe,
In this scenario, an alternative solution is to change the locale (the date and number formats) before importing the data. :smileyhappy:
- Go to File > Options and settings > Options.
- Under Current file, select Regional Settings.
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In the Locale box, select a proper locale.
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Select OK.
Regards
- 8 years ago
Hi again...
Probably the problem appears after creating the new date column.
After splitting the date column (wrong date column) by the delimiter "/", you get 3 columns (day, month and year) but the default data type is whole number, then whenever you try to concatenate again these columns, a error message appears. It's because before creating a new column you need to convert these 3 columns from whole number to Text.
If the previous advice is not your case, try the next pbix file