Power BI cannot convert to integer from Oracle

[Anonymous]

Hey,

We are bringing in an integer from Oracle, but the power query always recognizes it as a decimal number. We already tried to use the CAST ( #number as INT ), TO_INT, TRUNC and TO_NUMBER Oracle functions in the view, but it didn't work.
The customer wants to avoid any transformation on the power bi side.
The connection it uses is Oracle Database.

[AilsaTaoYe]

Hi @Anonymous 

You can choose Never detect column types and headers for unstructured sources in Options => GLOBAL => Data Load .  Then restart your Desktop , you will find that Power Query will not transform your data .

Best Regards

[Anonymous]

Hi @AilsaTaoYe,
Thanks for the help, but I just disabled it and it still has decimal type.

[Anonymous]

Hi @Anonymous 

Did you restart your Desktop and then connect to Oralce again ? 

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Ailsa Tao

[Anonymous]

Hi @Anonymous 

Yes, I already restarted, made a new connection in Power BI and it still doesn't recognize the type.

[kdevroede]

Is there a solution for this problem? We are experiencing the same issue and doing a conversion at PBI side causes folding to fail and increases CPU consumption at PBI side.

[sk30]

Hi @v-yetao1-msft ,

Have we found a working solution for this as we're still facing this issue. Thanks

[lakshmancseh]

Hello,

Any solution found on this yet ? I am also looking for the solution. Please help.

[lakshmancseh]

Hi,

I imported a table from Oracle database into POWER BI. It has NUMBER datatype. SIGMA symbol is being shown before the NUMBER datatype column in POWER BI. Is there any impact because of this ?