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ikhwan_tokenomy
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4 years ago
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Handling large decimal number

Hi PowerBI Community I am dealing with large decimal number. and receive this error message. " DataSource.Error: An error happened while reading data from the provider: 'Numeric value does not f...
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    AlexisOlson
    4 years ago

    It only shows 9 digits in the table but it maintains precision to about 15 significant figures.

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/desktop-data-types

     

    Fixed Decimals and Whole Numbers can express up to 19 digits of significance but aren't a good fit for the example given. For 20+ significant digits, you'd have to store them as text or break them into multiple columns.