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muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Could you import the column in as text to preserve it?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Sure, but sometimes you need to do a pivot table and get transformed, or you while working you accidentally made it a number, or just because excel being excel it import the number as scientific notation, or any other case.

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