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Usually an added Index column is a Whole Number as far as my experience goes.
Why is it by default a Decimal Number in Power Query?
As a result I'm always adding a step to make it a Whole Number.
In general I'm wondering what's best practice for performance out of these options:
Because you may want to increment by .1 or .01.
Most CPUs handle floating point (decimal) numbers as efficiently as integers (whole numbers). I would not think that performance improves by changing the type to whole number.
Regards,
Mike
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