BigQuery connector unexpected converts String to Number

user02041
user02041 Member
in Connectors

Hello Community,

I'm using the Google BigQuery Service connector.

 

I found an unexpected behaviour truncating long numeric strings.
fullVisitorID is a string in BQ schema, even though this arrives in Domo as a string (when using BigQuery schema in the connector settings); there is a weird behaviour where the long numeric string is truncated to number and transformed to exponential form.
For example instead of
10139350147955357369 the string that appears in Domo is 1.0139350147955357E19

 

Has anyone experienced this?

Thanks for any comments

Comments

  • BrendanH
    BrendanH Member

     

    You may need to reach out to Domo Support to get this investigated 

  • I_love_tomatoes
    I_love_tomatoes Member

    Hi,

     

    It's a bit hacky but you could try and force Domo to read it as a string.

     

    In the query you can add an arbitrary letter to the string so it is not possible for the value to be interpreted as a numeric value.

     

    For example instead of

    SELECT fullVisitorID FROM tablename;

    use something like:

    SELECT CAST(concat(fullVisitorId,'A') AS STRING) as fullVisitorID from tablename;

    then there should be no way Domo can read it as a string and you can preserve all the precision of the value.

     

    hope that helps

  • Unknown
    Unknown

    Awesome, thanks for that.

    Works like a charm, bit hacky but this will do for the moment.

     

    I've already commented on Ideas Sharing, for having the developers to look into it.

     

    Thanks!

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