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kbecker12's avatar
kbecker12
New Member
7 years ago

Column nulled out with MS Access Query Connection

I imported data from a MS Access query and one column (LEVEL) is null in Power BI.  Another column's values are changed to "Other". There are no null values or "Other" in  for these columns in the MS...
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v-cherch-msft
Microsoft Employee
7 years ago

Hi kbecker12 

I cannot reproduce the same issue.Please check if this post could help.If it is not your case,you could try to open a support ticket. If you have a Pro account it is free. Go to https://support.powerbi.com. Scroll down and click "CREATE SUPPORT TICKET".

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  • edhans's avatar
    edhans
    Community Champion
    7 years ago

    Additionally, I would check two things:

    • Repair the Access database and make sure it isn't messed up. Database Tools tab, Compact and Repair.
    • Reinstall the Access Database Engine as I've seen that get messed up before. A reinstall cleans up a lot of stuff.
    • kbecker12's avatar
      kbecker12
      New Member
      7 years ago

      Thank you for the suggestions! I haven't tried to reinstall the Access Database Egnine yet, but the Databae compact and repair had no impact on this issue. 

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    kbecker12
    New Member
    7 years ago

    Thank you. I did submit a ticket the next day. The support team is working on this. I do not have identical column names in the queries that I am seeing this error. There are Access engineers looking into the issue now. I have to get this working, so in the meantime, I will use another approach. I pulled the individual records data in another program and aggregated it in Access. The nice thing about doing it in Access is it is so flexible and any updates or changes are simple to implement. However, at this point, I think it might be easier for me to connect directly to the data source through an Oracle connection. I am worried about the speed of the query and refresh though.