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Hi Guys, I'm trying to develop a data connector with PowerBI SDK, when loading a boolean column data via ODBC driver, the PowerBI reports an error like this:
OdbcQuery/FoldingWarning {"Start":"2018-02-01T02:23:28.5133506Z","Action":"OdbcQuery/FoldingWarning","HostProcessId":"716","ErrorMessage":"Failed to convert from bit to float for expression \"C1\". You can override this by using SqlGetInfo for converting from BIT to DOUBLE.","ProductVersion":"2.54.4970.961 (PBIDesktop)","ActivityId":"298fd4a9-4f87-497b-9f93-8b3399f53fcb","Process":"Microsoft.Mashup.Container.NetFX40","Pid":6192,"Tid":1,"Duration":"00:00:00.0000394"}
OdbcQuery/FoldingWarning {"Start":"2018-02-01T02:23:28.5133984Z","Action":"OdbcQuery/FoldingWarning","HostProcessId":"716","ErrorMessage":"Failed to convert from bit to float for expression \"C1\". You can override this by using SqlGetInfo for converting from BIT to DOUBLE.","ProductVersion":"2.54.4970.961 (PBIDesktop)","ActivityId":"298fd4a9-4f87-497b-9f93-8b3399f53fcb","Process":"Microsoft.Mashup.Container.NetFX40","Pid":6192,"Tid":1,"Duration":"00:00:00.0000109"}
OdbcQuery/FoldingWarning {"Start":"2018-02-01T02:23:28.5134130Z","Action":"OdbcQuery/FoldingWarning","HostProcessId":"716","ErrorMessage":"Failed to convert from bit to float for expression \"C1\". You can override this by using SqlGetInfo for converting from BIT to FLOAT.","ProductVersion":"2.54.4970.961 (PBIDesktop)","ActivityId":"298fd4a9-4f87-497b-9f93-8b3399f53fcb","Process":"Microsoft.Mashup.Container.NetFX40","Pid":6192,"Tid":1,"Duration":"00:00:00.0000093"}
OdbcQuery/FoldingWarning {"Start":"2018-02-01T02:23:28.5134257Z","Action":"OdbcQuery/FoldingWarning","HostProcessId":"716","ErrorMessage":"Failed to convert from bit to real for expression \"C1\". You can override this by using SqlGetInfo for converting from BIT to REAL.","ProductVersion":"2.54.4970.961 (PBIDesktop)","ActivityId":"298fd4a9-4f87-497b-9f93-8b3399f53fcb","Process":"Microsoft.Mashup.Container.NetFX40","Pid":6192,"Tid":1,"Duration":"00:00:00.0000078"}
OdbcQuery/FoldingWarning {"Start":"2018-02-01T02:23:28.5134409Z","Action":"OdbcQuery/FoldingWarning","HostProcessId":"716","ErrorMessage":"Failed to convert from bit to decimal for expression \"C1\". You can override this by using SqlGetInfo for converting from BIT to DECIMAL.","ProductVersion":"2.54.4970.961 (PBIDesktop)","ActivityId":"298fd4a9-4f87-497b-9f93-8b3399f53fcb","Process":"Microsoft.Mashup.Container.NetFX40","Pid":6192,"Tid":1,"Duration":"00:00:00.0000090"}
OdbcQuery/FoldingWarning {"Start":"2018-02-01T02:23:28.5134533Z","Action":"OdbcQuery/FoldingWarning","HostProcessId":"716","ErrorMessage":"Failed to convert from bit to numeric for expression \"C1\". You can override this by using SqlGetInfo for converting from BIT to NUMERIC.","ProductVersion":"2.54.4970.961 (PBIDesktop)","ActivityId":"298fd4a9-4f87-497b-9f93-8b3399f53fcb","Process":"Microsoft.Mashup.Container.NetFX40","Pid":6192,"Tid":1,"Duration":"00:00:00.0000084"}
OdbcQuery/FoldingWarning {"Start":"2018-02-01T02:23:28.5134651Z","Action":"OdbcQuery/FoldingWarning","HostProcessId":"716","ErrorMessage":"Failed to convert from bit to bigint for expression \"C1\". You can override this by using SqlGetInfo for converting from BIT to BIGINT.","ProductVersion":"2.54.4970.961 (PBIDesktop)","ActivityId":"298fd4a9-4f87-497b-9f93-8b3399f53fcb","Process":"Microsoft.Mashup.Container.NetFX40","Pid":6192,"Tid":1,"Duration":"00:00:00.0000075"}
OdbcQuery/FoldingWarning {"Start":"2018-02-01T02:23:28.5134766Z","Action":"OdbcQuery/
But the DataSource SQLGetTypeInfo reports support BIT type, I'm not sure what happens with PowerBI, Is it MUST support CONVERT BIT to Numeric?
Thanks
You may try using CAST to convert data type in SQL statement.
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