No scientific notation in csv file
Hi, All
I have a package is extracting data from DB to CSV file.
And I made up a column like '48484848484848484', when I load this column into CSV file,
it shows me scientific notation along with the data.
How can I get rid of the scientific notation ?
I've tried data conversion, derived column. Nothing works.
This really makes my frustrated.
Thank you in advance.
Hi,
In that case, the SQL export process is fine.
It's just Excel suggesting a scientific notation where it's not needed.
You can get rid of the scientific notation by forcing your "long" numeric value into a string.
For example
"A001","Item code", "123376265892759026"
instead of
"A001", "Item code", 123376265892759026
Sebastian Sajaroff Senior DBA Pharmacies Jean Coutu
My data souce is like:
Select '1234567891123' as column1,
Id as column2,
Name as column3,
From Table1
I think I already give column1 as a string. And I also tried to cast column1 to nvarchar or varchar or decimal or numeric, nothing works.
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