Symptoms
Assume that you create a PolyBase external table by using an Oracle external data source. When you map an Oracle NUMBER type to a T-SQL DECIMAL/NUMERIC type, you may receive the following error message:
The following columns in the user defined schema are incompatible with the external table schema for table '<TableName>': user defined column: ([<ColumnName>] DECIMAL(<n>) NOT NULL) is not compatible with the type of detected external table column: ([<ColumnName>] FLOAT(53) NOT NULL)
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
Resolution
This issue is fixed in the following cumulative update for SQL Server:
Each new cumulative update for SQL Server contains all the hotfixes and security fixes that were in the previous build. We recommend that you install the latest build for your version of SQL Server:
References
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