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Preview Snowflake Connector Bug with boolean values
- 1 year ago
Hi crispybc - that does seem like a bug. I ran some tests out of curiosity and had exactly the same issue.
I'm not sure what the best approach is while this bug exists, but here are some observations of variations on the query:
1. Native query created using dialog box converts Boolean to text
-- ❌ Boolean columns > text let Source = Value.NativeQuery( Snowflake.Databases("MY_SERVER.snowflakecomputing.com", "MY_WAREHOUSE", [Implementation = "2.0"]){ [Name = "MY_DATABASE"] }[Data], "SELECT * FROM MY_SCHEMA.MY_VIEW", null, [EnableFolding = true] ) in Source2. Setting EnableFolding = false fixes Boolean column type
I would only recommend this if no further transformation steps a required in Power Query.
-- ✅ Boolean columns > logical let Source = Value.NativeQuery( Snowflake.Databases("MY_SERVER.snowflakecomputing.com", "MY_WAREHOUSE", [Implementation = "2.0"]){ [Name = "MY_DATABASE"] }[Data], "SELECT * FROM MY_SCHEMA.MY_VIEW", null, [EnableFolding = false] ) in Source3. Setting Implementation ="1.0" (old connector) but keeping EnableFolding = true fixes also Boolean column type
-- ✅ Boolean columns > logical let Source = Value.NativeQuery( Snowflake.Databases("MY_SERVER.snowflakecomputing.com", "MY_WAREHOUSE", [Implementation = "1.0"]){ [Name = "MY_DATABASE"] }[Data], "SELECT * FROM MY_SCHEMA.MY_VIEW", null, [EnableFolding = true] ) in Source
Hi crispybc ,
This could be a bug or an issue related to data type interpretation when fetching the results.
You can try a temporary workaround by setting the column to integer using Advance query option while
Connecting to a Snowflake database from Power Query:
SELECT CASE WHEN boolean_column THEN 1 ELSE 0 END FROM your_table;
If you still encounter any issues you can raise you issues here:
https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Issues/idb-p/Issues
Additionally, you can go through this documentation where you can provide feedback for new preview Snowflake connector and learn about its limitations and known issues
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/connectors/snowflake#connect-using-advanced-options
Hope this helps!
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