I connectedt fo a file in My SQL from Power BI. The My SQL table shows the date as VARCHAR but the ogiginal source showed it as a date. Why can't I change type in Power BI to "date"? it give me an error:
Thanks!
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@Anonymous Pl. change the data to Date/Time/Timezone in powerquery window
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