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vincent_1234
Helper I
10 years ago

Maximum text length

Dear developers,   I've imported data from a plain sql server table. One column contains many characters, however according the documentation this should not be an issue. https://powerbi.microsoft...
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vross
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

Interesting, I'd be happy with 32k.  My text is being limited to only 1024.  Same whether I pull the data from a linked Excel sheet or through a .csv file.  Wanted to use power query to join two relatively short tables with text values and it's been a complete fiasco, since I handed the finished product off only to find out that the text columns were truncated.

 

What I've tried.

both Excel and csv

setting the type to Any and Text, neither of which made any difference.

 

 

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vross
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

Ok, this is difficult to debug, since the preview in the query editor only shows the first 1024 characters, but the issue may be limited to data from linked Excel tables.  So to duplicate, dump >1024 characters in a cell, create a table, "Add to Data Model", then "Close & Load Too..." back into a new sheet.