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Every Power BI model needs a Date entity

Martin Schoombee

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February 5, 2018

Unless your source data contains no dates at all, every Power BI model should have a Date entity. Chances are good that you’ve ignored a built-in option in Power BI Desktop that’s enabled by default (image below). While the “Auto Date/Time” option isn’t the worst thing you could do in Power BI Desktop (i.e. the …

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