Have an issue where when a report is downloaded, a field that has over 15 digits is converted to scientific notation instead of displaying the full digits (i.e. 672000000000000 = 6.72×10 to the 14th degree). I know this is an excel feature, but is there any workaround for it on the SSRS end?
Thanks!
This is an Excel issue, not a Reporting Services one. The SSRS CSV export should contain the number as it exists in the report, e.g. 672000000000000
The default behaviour for Excel (which you are presumably using to open the CSV file) is to display values this large using scientific notation, i.e. "6.72E+14". This behaviour can't be controlled from within SSRS.
As an alternative you might consider using the Excel render method for the report, which might give you more control over the display of these numbers.
Excel won't mess with it if you convert the expression to a string within SSRS.
Go into the expression for the text box and type the following:
=Str(Fields!YourFieldHere.Value)
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What do you avoid when creating and filling out a Excel spreadsheet of data for a SQL database (certain formats, characters, character length issues?)
2.Does it matter how dates are formatted?
VARCHAR or INTEGER errors you've seen?
Finally, what SQL or Python queries did you use to address errors you found that you might have shared for questions 1-3?
The easiest way would be, if you can import Database-EDI (e.g. Oracle SQL Developer) a TXT- or CSV-Excel-Export into our Database.
→ Depending on the database, different requirements must be observed.
The main focus is on the correct formatting with regard to the country settings (Excel & database):
Excel-Format-Date YYYY-M-DD HH24:MM / Databe-Timestamp YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MM:SS.FFFF
→ That would not work
In addition, make sure that Excel does not cut any numbers:
Excel-Format-Long-Number 89632150000 (orignal 896321512345 )
→ Excel automatically shortens the number in the standard settings.
The length of a text must not exceed the specified maximum length in the assigned column of the type (VARCHAR).
I think these would be the main points to look out for.
I'm working in Access 2010's SQL editor and I'm performing a calculation that results in a ratio.
I would like to display this ratio as a percentage using the SQL syntax editor, but as a number, not a string. I'd like to be able to paste out/export to Excel and not have to convert text to numbers.
Let's say this is my calculation:
OriginCount/DestinationCount AS MatchRate
I used the FORMAT function to make it appear as a percentage, but the result appears as a string. (Which I think is how the FORMAT function is designed to work)
FORMAT(OriginCount/DestinationCount,'Percent') AS MatchRate
Question 1: Is this possible using the SQL syntax editor?
Question 2: How do I do it?
Thanks!
How will you be using this data? It is standard to leave it as a double, EG: 0.02354, and then simply change the format of any control displaying that field.
Users should not being seeing tables or queries without them being the recordsource of a form, so this shouldn't be a problem.
That way, when exporting to Excel/Wherever else, it will properly display as a decimal number, and when viewing in Access, it will display as a Percentage 2.35%
The result of the FORMAT function in access is always in string format, so that would be expected behavior.
Did you try the CONVERT function instead?
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187928.aspx
Is there a way for a number to stay as a number and not a string even with the percent sign?
The reason I write a function in a query like:
Format(IIf([BDE MTOE CURRENT]=0,0,[PROJECTED OH]/[BDE MTOE CURRENT]),"Percent")
is so that I can output a complete report without having to do anything to it.
Microsoft Access (My version is 2007) changes it to a string.
You do not need to format the number in the SQL query. There is a formatting option for the values in Access reports:
If you are exporting the data to Excel there is a similar option for the Excel cells.
The bottomline is: numbers should stay numbers. That way they are better manageable: you can sort them, you can apply mathematical operations on them
Agreed. I have decided to keep numbers as decimals and will format the spreadsheet columns into percentage from MS Access using VBA. I kinda hoped I could do it all from SQL.
I live in Brasil and decimal separators are commas. For a bunch of reasons, I use dots as decimal separators in SQL Server, which is different from Excel.
With that being said, I would like to know why the following query
select 1.0*5
is understood as text in Excel (if so), when copying and pasting, and dots are not converted to commas, while
select cast(1.0*5 as float)
is understood as float in Excel.
What is the type of result in the first query?
UPDATE
If the query were
select 1.1*5
the result of copy and paste in Excel cell would be 5.5. It is not possible to convert this to value in Excel.
While the second query would result in 5,5. I can use the use this value in Excel in an addition operation, for example.
If you're doing it directly IN Excel, it seems that your regional settings are not seeing that as an operation with a decimal, but rather text. If you change your regional settings to US, it would probably resolve it correctly.
The difference between the two is that you are literally telling the value to be cast differently than the default. So your regional setting is overridden.
Excel, as smart as it is, tends to make many assumptions that could be tied to any number of things. Sometimes you just have to deal with it.
In the end, your 2nd query is likely to produce better results.
Ex:- For example we are uploading a sheet with mobile call details. which is having one field called “dialed number “. It might be more than 10 digits some times and the same has been converting to Scientific notations in the excel sheets and the same we are uploading to the database. How to convert this scientific notation to numbers in the database.
Kindly help me by providing the possible ways to convert the Scientific notation to Number. Please let me know if any some more information needed.
Excel does not change the actual value of a cell, it just displays it in the scientific notation.
Have you actually tried to import data from excel into SQL Server?