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Dear all,
I have imported an excel sheet and saved data from it in two tables in Power BI so far.
Now I created tables with the same data directly in Power BI instead and replaced the imported tables by them, since the tables are very small (1 row, 4 columns) and the excel import causes trouble when installing a data gateway.
However, after replacing the old tables by the new, I get the following error message:
The data type 'XM_TYPE_REAL' does not match the expected data type 'XM_TYPE_INT' for the column 'x' in table 'y' .
Can you help me?
Thanks
Susanne
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Dear @HotChilli ,
I have checked the data types and they were actually all set as "decimal", so I just recreated the columns dependent on the data in table 'x' and now for some reason it works ^^
Thanks anyway!
Well it looks like powerbi expected an INT in one of the columns but a decimal turned up instead.
So it's probably fixable by changing the data type in Power Query or Powerbi front end
Dear @HotChilli ,
I have checked the data types and they were actually all set as "decimal", so I just recreated the columns dependent on the data in table 'x' and now for some reason it works ^^
Thanks anyway!
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