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How to change data type to deicmal when using power query write data to dataverse

Hi, I'm trying to write a table to Dataverse using power query. My table has the "Value" column which is very large number (up to 100 billion). On the ETL process, I set the "Value" 's data type a...
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    3 years ago

    Hi Anonymous - it appears that to need to change your PowerApps (dataverse) table. The target column is set in INT.  This needs to be changed to BIG INT to accept larger numbers.  If this still doesn't work, the column will need to be set to TEXT.  Please note again, this change needs to be made on the Dataverse table not in the Power Query data type.

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Anonymous
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3 years ago

Hi Anonymous - it appears that to need to change your PowerApps (dataverse) table. The target column is set in INT.  This needs to be changed to BIG INT to accept larger numbers.  If this still doesn't work, the column will need to be set to TEXT.  Please note again, this change needs to be made on the Dataverse table not in the Power Query data type.

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3 years ago

Thanks you so much;

Setting the data type to BIG INT didn't help. But setting to TEXT worked.

This saved my day, thansk you 😄