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PowerBIAdept1
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Problem with Numbers and Dates

Hey there,   My Data looks Like this:   Date 5052021 7052021 7052021 5052021 7052021 7052021 10052021   The format should then look like this after the transformation w...
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    Anonymous
    4 years ago

    PowerBIAdept1 

    To change the number to date, please copy and past the following code into a blank query.

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjUwNTIwMlSK1YlWMsfBJkaNoQGMEwsA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Date = _t]),
        #"Split Column by Position" = Table.SplitColumn(Source, "Date", Splitter.SplitTextByPositions({0, 4}, true), {"Date.1", "Date.2"}),
        #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Position",{{"Date.1", Int64.Type}, {"Date.2", Int64.Type}}),
        #"Split Column by Position1" = Table.SplitColumn(Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Changed Type", {{"Date.1", type text}}, "zh-CN"), "Date.1", Splitter.SplitTextByPositions({0, 2}, true), {"Date.1.1", "Date.1.2"}),
        #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Position1",{{"Date.1.1", Int64.Type}, {"Date.1.2", Int64.Type}}),
        #"Merged Columns" = Table.CombineColumns(Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Changed Type1", {{"Date.1.1", type text}, {"Date.1.2", type text}, {"Date.2", type text}}, "zh-CN"),{"Date.1.1", "Date.1.2", "Date.2"},Combiner.CombineTextByDelimiter(".", QuoteStyle.None),"Date"),
        #"Changed Type2" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Merged Columns",{{"Date", type date}})
    in
        #"Changed Type2"

     

     

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