The date functions
The date functions are useful for a variety of tasks, such as identifying the elapsed time between two events or a part of a date.
Many date functions in Tableau Public operate on dateparts. Dateparts are the small units of measurement of dates, such as a year, quarter, month, week, day, and the units of time, such as an hour, a minute, and a second. Writing date functions in Tableau Public is similar to writing date functions in ANSI SQL or Microsoft Excel with a big difference—dateparts need to be spelled out and enclosed in single quotation marks, which is a relatively simple design and use of punctuation for a programming language.
The most commonly performed analysis is the measurement of change over time, and the prevalence ...
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