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Arto
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BigQuery "We couldn't fold the expression to the data source" issue with letters other than English

Hi,
I connected to my BigQuery DB by bigquery connector. BD data in English and Russian. When i'm trying to filter my view by one column (using slicer or page level filter) and choose some data in Russian, I get the error "OLE DB or ODBC error: [Expression.Error] We couldn't fold the expression to the data source. Please try a simpler expression..".  Everything is ok with data in Enlgish.

I think there may be some troubles with UNICODE and cp1251 encoding.

Help plz

 

Full error details:

 

Feedback Type:
Frown (Error)

Timestamp:
2018-05-04T16:43:27.0434402Z

Local Time:
2018-05-04T19:43:27.0434402+03:00

Session ID:
182e48b7-6565-41b7-8b59-eeb14e08ddb6

Release:
April 2018

Product Version:
2.57.5068.721 (PBIDesktop) (x64)

Error Message:
OLE DB or ODBC error: [Expression.Error] We couldn't fold the expression to the data source. Please try a simpler expression..

OS Version:
Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.14393.0 (x64 ru-RU)

CLR Version:
4.7 or later [Release Number = 460805]

Peak Virtual Memory:
34.3 GB

Private Memory:
584 MB

Peak Working Set:
671 MB

IE Version:
11.2125.14393.0

User ID:
6ca36cb9-c8ea-451e-984b-aea20a4e6ad0

Workbook Package Info:
1* - en-US, Query Groups: 0, fastCombine: Disabled, runBackgroundAnalysis: True.

Telemetry Enabled:
True

Model Default Mode:
DirectQuery

Snapshot Trace Logs:
C:\Users\a.alaverdyan\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\FrownSnapShot30116487.zip

Performance Trace Logs:
C:\Users\a.alaverdyan\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\PerformanceTraces.zip

Disabled Preview Features:
PBI_shapeMapVisualEnabled
PBI_EnableReportTheme
PBI_SpanishLinguisticsEnabled
CustomConnectors
PBI_qnaExplore
PBI_variationUIChange
PBI_canvasTooltips

Enabled DirectQuery Options:
PBI_DirectQuery_Unrestricted

Disabled DirectQuery Options:
TreatHanaAsRelationalSource

Cloud:
GlobalCloud

DPI Scale:
150%

Supported Services:
Power BI

Formulas:


section Section1;

shared AttrAdCost_Aggr_test = let
Source = GoogleBigQuery.Database(null),
#"zilart-181807" = Source{[Name="zilart-181807"]}[Data],
Test_db_Schema = #"zilart-181807"{[Name="Test_db",Kind="Schema"]}[Data],
AttrAdCost_Aggr_test_Table = Test_db_Schema{[Name="AttrAdCost_Aggr_test",Kind="Table"]}[Data],
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(AttrAdCost_Aggr_test_Table,{{"attributed_adSourceGroup", type text}})
in
#"Changed Type" ;

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v-chuncz-msft
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@Arto,

 

Try the latest version of Power BI Desktop and create a support ticket to get a better explanation if necessary.

Community Support Team _ Sam Zha
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