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Decimal truncation when loading to Athena

OksanaBezpyata
8 - Asteroid

Hi,

 

Could you help to understand the reason why when loading data from Alteryx (2019.4.8 version) to Athena table decimals are truncated. In Select tool I set decimal to 40.10, but as a result in Athena table get for example such a value: 548.35. I have rechecked the workflow and each numeric column is set to 40.10.

 

Thank you in advance!

Oksana

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BrandonB
Alteryx
Alteryx

I may need double checked on this, but with Athena leveraging a bulk loader, it loads a CSV up to an S3 bucket to then be subsequently loaded into the Athena table. A CSV by nature will drop trailing zeroes off of a numeric data type decimal place. This would explain why although a fixed decimal is being used with a precision of 10, it isn't sending the extra zeroes to the Athena table if it is 548.3500000000

OksanaBezpyata
8 - Asteroid

hi,

 

I have encountered one more interesting case related to loading decimals 38.12 to Athena by Alteryx.

 

I have the value 6187.905800000000 -> when loading to Athena it changes to 6187.9057999999995 in Athena.

 

Could you please let me know how I can fix it.

 

Thank you in advance!

Best regards,

Oksana

BrandonB
Alteryx
Alteryx

Hi @OksanaBezpyata 

 

This could potentially be related to the driver that you are using to load data, but can you please send this note to support@alteryx.com so that we can investigate further. 

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