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Rikin-Nayak-007
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3 years ago

Power bi in direct query mode

I am working on a dataset (5 views) available on SQL Server, and i want to use the dataset in direct query mode. However, I am unable to change the data type of the single column in single views fro...
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amitchandak
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3 years ago

Rikin-Nayak-007 , It is not all allowed in power query, you can do in Dax using column tools. Click on the column, you should see a new option tab.

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Rikin-Nayak-007
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3 years ago

In Power BI desktop mode, I am unable to see any columns in direct query mode.

I only wanted to change one of the columns from text data type to date data type, however when I made the change and saved it, the following error appeared.

This query has transformations that are incompatible with DirectQuery.

 

I can do that in import mode but I got error in direct query mode.