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Good afternoon everyone,
I'm trying to connect to SQLite3 database from PowerBi. When the PowerQuery opens, integer columns appears to be Binary format. I wrote table from Jupyter notebook using sqlalchemy and pandas to_sql(). Then, the file was opened in DB Browser for SQLite. Everything looked fine, so it seems to be sort of a Power BI issue. I can convert to text and then to Whole Number, but since such connections supposed to be created frequently, it's inconvinient to apply 2-steps convertion for 7 columns every time. Why PowerQuery reads integers as Binary?
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Any advise will be appriciated, very confused with the issue.
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Hi @mieltn,
Not 100% sure of the cause, but one possible issue.
Did you explicitly set the data types in the Python script?
dtype={'period': sqlalchemy.types.INTEGER()}
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Hi, @mieltn ,
Power BI ODBC connector read the data absed on what driver returns. It looks like Access dBase driver that you use returned the data as binary, you should notify Access team about the issue if you have verified the data is indeed integer in SQLite.
Hi @mieltn,
Not 100% sure of the cause, but one possible issue.
Did you explicitly set the data types in the Python script?
dtype={'period': sqlalchemy.types.INTEGER()}
Kim
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Thank you very much! Explicitly initializing dtypes before writing to SQLite3 was the issue.
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