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JoeCrozier
Helper II
Helper II

Dealing with "record" columns in a Dataflow gen2

I have this dataflow that pulls from a Snowflake destination:

JoeCrozier_0-1728998666964.png

As you can see in the screenshot, a few of the columns are of "record" type.  Fabric doesnt seem to like these formats and automatically deletes them sometimes by adding code that looks like this:

 

Table.RemoveColumns(#"From Value", Table.ColumnsOfType(#"From Value", {type table, type record, type list, type nullable binary, type binary, type function}))


Makes sense, as best as I can understand it the data needs to be flat, almost csv like.

So the way I understand it, I need to expand out those records, maybe in their own table.  So I copied that query and selected just two columns:

JoeCrozier_1-1728998949485.png


When I tell Fabric to expand that contact identifier column and grab every column inside of it:

JoeCrozier_2-1728999019452.png


it doesn't "really" expand everything.  Here's what I mean, here's whats visible immediately after that:

JoeCrozier_3-1728999116945.png

 

That "step is not supported by fast copy" and still wont be able to save into a Lakehouse.  What do I do?

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filter out all null value, then expand the record column again.

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lbendlin
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looks like this might be a record inside a record. See if you can grab "value"  instead.

Silly question, how?

filter out all null value, then expand the record column again.

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