How to export the entire query results to xls format without the value truncated (with the header intact).
e.g
the value is round up to 276408428673510000 when the actual value is suppose to be 276408428673508271
Using this method
After selecting the data by clicking 'Ctrl+ A' in gride, use 'Ctrl+Shift+C' to copy the data with Header. After pasting the data into MS Excel, try changing the 'format' to number or text. You must be knowing that 'format cells' is available as a right click option in MS Excel.
My solution was use the LPAD or RPAD functions, you give the exact length that you want and when you export the data, these don't round it.
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I am using a GETPIVOTDATA function in Excel to source data from a pivot table generated by a Power BI query (everything was originally only in excel, the file got too large, so i stored the main tables in PBI but kept the reports in excel for mgmt's sake).
=GETPIVOTDATA("[Measures].["&$A$100&"]",'PIVOT Table_test'!$A$126,"[Master].[field1]","[Master].[field1].&["&C$26&"]","[Master].[AsofDate]","[Master].[AsofDate].&[2022-04-30T00:00:00]")
However, I want to make the GETPIVOTDATA function as dynamic as possible to prevent having too many hardcoded fields/items for each table that fields the charts we look at. However, when i reference the pivot table, the '[Asof]' field populates the static item as "...&[2022-04-30T00:00:00]")...
I have been trying to change that to reference a header row that contains a Short Date value (4/30/2022) like &["&$B&1"&"]")... but i keep getting #ref errors, every other field accepts the "&&" method, and when i leave the hardcoded timestamp in the formula, it populates.
So it has to be that reference but i do not understand what I am doing wrong. I have also tried changing the format of both the header row in Excel and the field within PBI but to no success.
Found the answer on another site. The solution in the item brackets is to write the following:
["&TEXT($A22,"yyyy-mm-dd""T00:00:00""")&"]
I use HeidiSQL to manage my database.
When I export grid row to CSV format file, the large number 89610185002145111111 become 8.96102E+19
How can I keep the number without science notation conversion?
HeidiSQL does not do such a conversion. I tried to reproduce but I get the unformatted number:
id;name
89610185002145111111;hey
Using a text editor, by the way. If you use Excel, you may have to format the cell in a different format.
I am trying to create a data source in Tableau (10.0) where I am joining a table from SQL with an Excel file. The join happens on a site id but when reading the id from the excel source, Tableau strips the leading zeros (and SQL keeps leading zeros). I see this example
to add the leading zeros back as a new, calculated field. But the join is still dropping rows because the id is not properly formatted when making the join.
How do I get the excel data source to read the column with the leading zeros so I can do the join?
Launch Excel and choose to open a new blank workbook.
Click the Data tab and select From Text.
Browse to the saved CSV file and select Import.
Ensure that Delimited is selected and click Next.
Leave Tab as the delimiter and click Next.
Select the column containing the data with leading zeros and click
Text.
Repeat for each column which contains leading zeros.
Click Finish.
Click OK.
Never heard of or used tableau, but it sounds as though something (jet/ace database driver being used to read excel file?) is determining the column to be numeric and parsing the data as numbers, losing leading zeroes
If your attempts at putting them back are giving you grief, I'd recommend trying the other direction instead; get sqlserver to convert its strings to numbers. Number matching should be more reliable than String matching, so long as the two systems don't handle rounding differently :)
If your Excel file was read in from a CSV and the Site ID is showing "Number Stored as Text", I think you can solve your problem by telling Tableau on the Data Source entry that the field is actually a string. On the preview data source view, change the "#" (designating number) to string so that both the SQL source and the Excel source are both strings before doing the join.
This typically has to do with the way Excel stores values as mentioned above. I would play around with the number formatting for the Site ID column in Excel itself, not Tableau, and changed that two "Text" in Excel. You can verify if Tableau will read it properly with the leading 0s by exporting your excel file to csv and looking in the csv files to see if the leading 0s are still there.
I am performing a mail merge and have an issue when trying to correct the percentage format. The problem is that the source column contains both a percent value and text. If I map the field, percents display as decimal in word. If I use the following, it displays correctly:
{=«Percent»*100 # 0%}
However, now when the row contains text I receive an error.
Is there another way I can do this?
Here is the formula you need
{={MERGEFIELD XYZ}*100\ #0.00%}
No, Word has no way to do string manipulation in its fields. Add another field / column to your data source for the text, or format the percentile in Excel before performing the merge.
I try to export a crystal report to excel. The report is list of data. Some date may be omitted but, of course, the column order must be respected. But with an empty field all the data are shifted to the left and the column is not right any more.
How can I setup the crystal report to add empty cell for an empty data field ?
I put a blank text file field same height and width Over the field with the issue.
Then moved the field to the back. It worked, all data is aligned correctly in the Excel spreadsheet.
You'll need to experiment with the report's Excel-export options (File | Export | Report Export Options...). Consider 'Data Only (XLS)'.
I usually use TTX format, as it seems to work better than XLS.
Try add export option .ExcelUseConstantColumnWidth = false;