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awawaw
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Data frame error

Hello everyone. This is my first post, and I'm new to power bi. 

While I was working on my report, there is a really large interger"13308700010099" and it shows as sentific notation in table 1. I want to do a full outer merge with table 2 on this column. However, full outer merge doesn't work. Power BI keep showing me 
DataFormat.Error: We couldn't convert to Number.
Details:
1248563. LC

I don't know why this happened. I can do left outer merger but not full outer.

Please help me. 

Thanks

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v-kkf-msft
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Hi @awawaw ,

 

From the error message, it looks like the 1248563. LC value could not be converted to a numeric value. So please check if your columns contain the "1248563.LC",  or contain the row that reported an error, like this:

 

vkkfmsft_0-1650349440741.png

 

If the problem is still not resolved, please provide detailed error information or the expected result you expect. Let me know immediately, looking forward to your reply.
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parry2k
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@awawaw what is the type of this column in PQ, maybe change it to decimal instead of the whole number.

 

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Hi parry2K. I've try this but it still not work

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