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nutpapon_lim
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1 year ago
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Pipeline Data Copy Decimal type values are changed

Hi,   I'm trying a simple experiment. I want to copy data from Tables in Lake house to csv Files in the same Lake house. However, I found that the value of decimal data in Table is changed when it...
  • spencer_sa's avatar
    1 year ago

    Looks like a (double) floating point to string conversion issue.  I get the same when I use a Copy Data activity to output some decimals.  Might well be worth raising as a support ticket in Fabric.  As a work around, use the decimal data type instead.

    If when you have your decimal data stored in the table as the decimal type, you get the following.

    Floats are marginally worse;

     

     

     

    Another alternative would be to do the conversion in a Notebook.

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