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Gregory Deckler
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Greg Deckler is a 7-time Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and an active blogger and Power BI community member, having written over 6,000 solutions to community questions. Greg has authored many books on Power BI, including Learn Power BI 1st and 2nd Editions, DAX Cookbook, Power BI Cookbook 2nd Edition and Mastering Power BI 2nd Edition. Greg has also created several external tools for Power BI and regularly posts video content to his YouTube channels, Microsoft Hates Greg and DAX For Humans.
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Rick de Groot was born in the Netherlands and has been working in BI for more than 14 years. He went freelance in 2016 and now works as an independent Power BI consultant. On his mission to make Power BI more accessible, he started two blogs: BI Gorilla and PowerQuery. how, and a YouTube channel sharing Power Query and Power BI content. His commitment to offering free content through multiple platforms has led him to earning the Microsoft Data Platform MVP award for two consecutive years.
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Melissa de Korte's approach to facing challenges is fueled by relentless curiosity. She is a dedicated community member and content creator. Her portfolio includes blogs, tutorials, courses, and webinars, that make Power Query M more accessible and useful for all. Behind her professional persona lies a genuine dedication to empowering others through education and knowledge sharing, and a desire to encourage professionals to embrace the potential of Power Query, M.
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Dates and times

As one might anticipate, the representation of both a date and a time is possible within the M language. This data type is a datetime data type and exhibits similar properties to both date data types and time data types. In fact, since dates are simply whole numbers based upon a reference date and time is a decimal number reflecting the fractions of a day, a datetime data type can be represented as a decimal number, where the whole number portion represents the date and the decimal portion represents the time. For example, the following expression returns noon on February 14th (2/14/2024 12:00:00 PM):

DateTime.From(45336.5)

The individual components of date and time can be extracted from a datetime data type using the DateTime.Date and DateTime.Time functions. Alternatively, the DateTime.ToRecord function returns a record with field/value pairs for Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute, and Second.

Similar to dates and times, a constructor is available for the...

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Gregory Deckler

Greg Deckler is a 7-time Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and an active blogger and Power BI community member, having written over 6,000 solutions to community questions. Greg has authored many books on Power BI, including Learn Power BI 1st and 2nd Editions, DAX Cookbook, Power BI Cookbook 2nd Edition and Mastering Power BI 2nd Edition. Greg has also created several external tools for Power BI and regularly posts video content to his YouTube channels, Microsoft Hates Greg and DAX For Humans.
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Rick de Groot

Rick de Groot was born in the Netherlands and has been working in BI for more than 14 years. He went freelance in 2016 and now works as an independent Power BI consultant. On his mission to make Power BI more accessible, he started two blogs: BI Gorilla and PowerQuery. how, and a YouTube channel sharing Power Query and Power BI content. His commitment to offering free content through multiple platforms has led him to earning the Microsoft Data Platform MVP award for two consecutive years.
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Melissa de Korte

Melissa de Korte's approach to facing challenges is fueled by relentless curiosity. She is a dedicated community member and content creator. Her portfolio includes blogs, tutorials, courses, and webinars, that make Power Query M more accessible and useful for all. Behind her professional persona lies a genuine dedication to empowering others through education and knowledge sharing, and a desire to encourage professionals to embrace the potential of Power Query, M.
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