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Posted on by Kosenurm 802

Hi all,

 

We have a Dataverse table which has around 300k rows of data in it. 

 

We want to change one of the column types from Text to Number. If I delete the column which is text and create it again as Number, do I have to reimport all the data all over again?

 

Thanks

K.

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    AhmedSalih 6,680 Moderator on at

    Hello, @Kosenurm, Create a new Formula Fx column and try to use the function Value(OldTextColumn) to the get the new values as Numbers.

     

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