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When I use direct query functionality to retrieve data from a database (without doing any transformations) I get the following error message:
'this query contains transformations that can't be used for directquery.'
Any ideas why this message appears?
thanks!
regards Bart
Hi Ehren, sure. the sql is nothing special. just a count and a group by
select x, count(a1.pkey)
from x1 a1
Join x2 a3 on
where x in ('xx','xxx')
group by x
Hi there. Can you share the full M formula text of your PQ queries (not just the SQL)?
Can you share the M formula text of the query where you're seeing this error?
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