Kommentare zu: Ascribed types in M: why to generally avoid them https://ssbi-blog.de/blog/technical-topics-english/ascribed-types-in-m-why-to-generally-avoid-them/ Wir lieben Microsoft Power BI Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:44:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 Von: David Whitney https://ssbi-blog.de/blog/technical-topics-english/ascribed-types-in-m-why-to-generally-avoid-them/#comment-5879 Tue, 15 Oct 2024 19:12:57 +0000 https://ssbi-blog.de/?p=5510#comment-5879 Thanks for enlightening us.
Please note same issue applies when using Table.AddColumn. I always wondered why PQ wraps AddColumn inside Table.TransformColumnTypes in autogenerated code instead of using AddColumn’s optional final parameter. Now I know — it’s protective.

]]> Von: What is Power Query's time zone? – XXL BI https://ssbi-blog.de/blog/technical-topics-english/ascribed-types-in-m-why-to-generally-avoid-them/#comment-5874 Sat, 05 Oct 2024 20:33:41 +0000 https://ssbi-blog.de/?p=5510#comment-5874 […] Nothing special except I used Table.FirstValue because I didn’t want to bother with expanding a nested table, and I ascribed the data type by using the fourth argument of Table.AddColumn. In this case it was safe to do; in general, you should be careful, as Lars Schreiber writes in his blog post: “Ascribed types in M: why to generally avoid them“. […]

]]> Von: Pietro Farias https://ssbi-blog.de/blog/technical-topics-english/ascribed-types-in-m-why-to-generally-avoid-them/#comment-3305 Fri, 29 Apr 2022 09:44:19 +0000 https://ssbi-blog.de/?p=5510#comment-3305 OMG!!! Man, I love you. Every time I have questions on the „Power Query M Formula Language Specification“ I look to your blog to help me. Your contributions are incredible.

]]> Von: Lars Schreiber https://ssbi-blog.de/blog/technical-topics-english/ascribed-types-in-m-why-to-generally-avoid-them/#comment-572 Fri, 05 Jul 2019 09:36:48 +0000 https://ssbi-blog.de/?p=5510#comment-572 Als Antwort auf Bill Szysz.

Hi, Bill.
Thanks a lot. I’m glad if it helped 🙂

Greetings, Lars

]]> Von: Bill Szysz https://ssbi-blog.de/blog/technical-topics-english/ascribed-types-in-m-why-to-generally-avoid-them/#comment-571 Fri, 05 Jul 2019 09:32:28 +0000 https://ssbi-blog.de/?p=5510#comment-571 Very good article. Thanks for that.

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