I am trying to format a Access table fields to include all values as in the images below. However when I copy and paste from excel to the Access table, only significant figures appear in the table. The fields are currently of Text Datatype, I have tried Number Datatype but the values get rounded up. How do I correct this to accomplish this task? Is there a SQL query I can run to return the expected formatting?
Currently if I copy and paste from excel to Access:
Expected:
Perhaps If I leave the fields as Text Datatype, would the Format() method using the approach below sort it out:
SELECT Format(ExchangeRate, "#.######"), Format(ForeignGross, "#.##")
FROM tab1;
In Access, set the Format property for those two fields, respectively:
0.000000
0.00
Never store amounts or quantities as text. Change Field Data Type to Number and use Field Size: Double and Format: 0.000000 and 0.00 respectively.
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I have an ETL process set up to take data from an Excel spreadsheet and store it in a database using SSIS. However, one of the columns in the the Excel file is formatted as a percent, and it will sometimes erroneously be stored as a NULL value in the database, as if there was some sort of translation error.
Pictured is the exact format being used for the column in Excel.
Interestingly, these percent values do load properly on some days, but for some reason one particular Excel sheet I was given as an example of this issue will not load any of them at all when put through the SSIS processor.
In Excel, these values will show up like "50.00%", and when the SSIS processor is able to translate them properly it will display as the decimal equivalent in the database, "0.5", which is what I want instead of the NULL values. The data type I am using in SSIS for this is Unicode string [DT_WSTR], and it is saved as an NVARCHAR in the database.
Any insight as to why these values will sometimes not display/translate as intended? I have tried messing around with the data types in SSIS/SQL Server, but it has either resulted in no change or error. When I put test values in the Excel sheet, such as "test" to see if it is importing anything at all from this column, it does seem to work (just not for the percent numbers that I need).
The issue was caused by the "mixed data types" that were present in the first few rows of my data (the "mixed" part being blank fields), which would explain why some sheets would work and others wouldn't.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/542573/11815822
Setting the connection string to accommodate for this fixed the issue.
I made a simple query function as this: =QUERY(range,"select *",1), in my Google Spreadsheet, but the results dose not show any letters, it shows only fields that contains numbers.
Study this link
Syntax
QUERY(data, query, [headers])
data - The range of cells to perform the query on.
Each column of data can only hold boolean, numeric (including
date/time types) or string values.
In case of mixed data types in a single column, the majority data type
determines the data type of the column for query purposes. Minority
data types are considered null values.
Just format your range as a plain text using Format > Number > Plain text option, the below images show how to do it:
Need some help please ..
I have excel data that is formatted. Example 33.257615111 shows as 33.258 (thirty three million two hundred and fifty eight thousand)
I am trying to import data file into SQL using SSIS ETL. Is there a way I can convert this during ETL process as a number with 2 decimal places? i.e. 33257615.11
Thank you
This can be done. Use a Derived Column and the ROUND() expression.
Inside your Dataflow, between the Excel File Source component and the OLE DB Destination component, add a Derived Column component. Inside that Derived Column component create a new column that rounds the value.
(DT_NUMERIC,25,2)ROUND(MyColumnName, 2)
Map this new Derived Column above to your SQL destination and we are all set.
But! Are you SURE you want to store rounded numbers in your database?
Will you ever need to sum this column? If so, the rounded values are going to yield a very different total than the non-rounded values. Maybe, don't do this rounding in SSIS and instead store the full numbers. Let applications reading this data do the formatting. It's just as easy.
SELECT ROUND(MyColumnName,2) AS MyColumnName
FROM MyTable
In multitier architecture, the formatting of numbers should be left up to the display layer, not the data layer. This is exactly what Excel is doing. It's showing you a rounded number, but behind the scenes is the full value. Don't drop precision for the sake of formatting.
I have a external data column that brings number and text.
External data: 10000 text
I need to retrieve only the number of that external data column to calculated column. And the number is always 5 digits.
I have tried LEFT, FIND, TRIM... but nothing seems to be good enough to SharePoint 2010 to accept.
Please help!
Not sure if that's what your trying to achieve, but this formula works fine within my Calculated Column:
=LEFT([External Data],5)
When I export report from cognos to excel 2002 or 2007 format I want to convert the numbers to numeric data type.
I face issues after exporting when i try to find sum of certain columns it has values as
23,3456|
2356|
45,686.89|
20.00
due to this comma or other characters its taking the columns as text or some other data type.
so I manually convert to numeric data type and then apply summation functions. Need a solution to avoid this.
I want the decimal values to be decimal and numeric values to be numeric.
The region/language settings of your Cognos install does not match the region/language settings of Excel (which is inherited from Windows). The best solution is to adjust Windows settings to match Cognos or vice-versa.
Alternatively in the report in question you can override the Data Format of the values by selecting them and choosing Data Format from the properties window. From there you can adjust various settings such as forcing a specific data type as well as other options such as whether to use a comma separator.