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Define a calculated column

Define a calculated column

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Define a calculated column

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- [Instructor] A week after someone brings us their vehicle or schedule service for the first time, we want to follow up with them and make sure that we've set the appointment that they want, that if there were any issues we can resolve them. And so I'm going to add a calculated column to the vehicle table to give us the date for follow-up. I'm going to choose add column, and the display name is going to be Follow Up, that's a great name, this is going to be a date time field and so for myself, I'm going to call it FollowUpDT, and I'm going to choose Date Time, and really all I care about is the date. But I could choose Date Time, either way. This is optional and it's searchable. I'm going to add a calculation and it says, in order to open the calculated column editor you first must save the current table, so it's actually going to save the current table with the column that I just added. Saving the column is not the same…

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