MS SQL Server: How to keep a Date being a Date

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Hey!

I am new to Airbyte, so this may be a dump question. But unfortunately I am failing to find help in the documentation or via google etc…

The problem is easy to see in the logs:

Posting Date (type datetime[23], nullable false) -> JsonSchemaType({type=string})

Airbyte changes the datatype from datetime to string. This results in the field being a string at the destination (BigQuery) and that results in Looker Studio not being able to treat the field as a Date.

So how do I solve that? I tried multiple different Datatypes on the SQL Server End. I can see the field definition in airbyte, but I am unable to change it.

Thanks for any type of help or pointer to the docs I may have missed.

Ulf

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So I finally found out, that the MS SQL Server Source Connector converts every Dateformat to String. But I also found a part of the docs mentioning, that the basic nomalization converts strings with format label “date-time” to a timestamp.

Thats great news! But how would one ad the format label to the json object during the extract?

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