budgetcategory
masterThe budget-category list: four columns naming the categories a budget can be filed under — the original plan, a revision, a forecast — and whether a category is global.
no lastmodifieddate — full refresh. Its key is TEXT, not a number, so budgets.category joins here as a string comparison.
Browser page name is budgetCategory. Feature-gated on Multiple Budgets: the record exists only where that feature is on, which is also the only case in which budgets.category is populated. A pure list record with no page-listed joins, so it ships with no edges — the pricinggroup precedent.
What the badges mean
- master
- Data class: what the record holds — master data, transaction documents, control/configuration, or a documented convenience record. NetSuite has no product-family or schema axis, so this is the whole classification.
- Subsidiary-scoped
- The record carries a
subsidiarycolumn that partitions its rows, so the generated SQL anchors it. On a few records the column is a multiselect rather than a scalar foreign key — the table notes say which (see the quirks guide). - Location-scoped
- The record carries a
locationcolumn — an org segment in NetSuite before it is a warehouse — and the generated SQL anchors it the same way. - View
- A documented convenience record rather than a stored one. Land the records it stands in for instead of assuming it extracts as-is — the table notes say where the rows actually live.
Structural facts — how the record is partitioned, not a trap by itself
Join & extract hazards — verify before you rely on this
'T'/'F' string.Fields
4 fields · 1 key
4 fields.
| # | Field | Description | Type | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | id | Category key — TEXT, not a number | VARCHAR | Primary-key field |
| 2 | name | Category name | VARCHAR | |
| 3 | budgettype | Category is global — the page labels this column Global | VARCHAR | |
| 4 | isinactive | Inactive | VARCHAR |
Field provenance: hand-curated. 1 key field.
Boilerplate SQL
Starting point for reading the Connect-landed copy of budgetcategory on Databricks — dates are real DATE/TIMESTAMP columns and need no conversion, and the partition anchors are already in place. This record carries no modification stamp, and the snippet says so where the watermark would otherwise go. Set your Unity Catalog location, schema, and filter values below; they’re substituted into the SQL and the copy button.
3 parameters not filled: <catalog>, <schema>, <id>
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-- Table : budgetcategory — The budget-category list: four columns naming the categories a budget can be filed under — the original plan, a revision, a forecast — and whether a category is global.
-- Purpose: Column-selected read of budgetcategory — auto-generated from field metadata
-- Grain : One row per id
-- Caution: no lastmodifieddate — full refresh. Its key is TEXT, not a number, so budgets.category joins here as a string comparison.
-- Notes : Auto-generated skeleton for NetSuite data landed in your lakehouse from a SuiteAnalytics Connect (or SuiteQL) extract — it never addresses live NetSuite. Identifiers are lowercase as NetSuite2.com renders them. Select-type columns hold numeric internal ids: BUILTIN.DF() display resolution exists only at extraction time, so decode ids by joining the landed list records; see quirks #display-values. Check-box columns arrive as 'T'/'F' strings; see quirks #tf-booleans.
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SELECT
t.id AS "Category key — TEXT, not a number",
t.name AS "Category name",
t.budgettype AS "Category is global — the page labels this column Global", -- 'T'/'F' string — compare = 'T', or CAST via CASE; see quirks #tf-booleans
t.isinactive AS "Inactive" -- 'T'/'F' string — compare = 'T', or CAST via CASE; see quirks #tf-booleans
FROM <catalog>.<schema>.budgetcategory t
WHERE
1 = 1 -- no partition column on this record; the filters below are optional
-- AND t.id = '<id>'
-- no lastmodifieddate on this record — there is no watermark column, so incremental extraction must full-refresh it (see quirks #deletes)
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Select columns hold internal ids, not display text — see decoding display values.
Relationships
Diagram of 1-hop neighbors — join details below. Document-link edges are highlighted; they chain one document to the next and are the joins newcomers most often get wrong.
Join details
ON budgets.category = budgetcategory.id
More Financials tables
- budgetsThe budget header: one row per budget — an account, a fiscal year and whatever combination of subsidiary, class, department, location, customer and item the budget is dimensioned by — with the total the per-period rows add up to.
- budgetsmachineThe budget's per-period rows: one row per budget and accounting period, with the amount budgeted for that period.
- expensecategoryThe expense-category list: one row per category an expense report line can be coded to, with its default rate, whether a rate must be entered, and the account the expense posts to.
- nexusThe nexus list: one row per tax jurisdiction the account is registered in, hierarchical through a parent nexus, with the country, state and the tax agency filings go to.
- salestaxitemThe tax-code list: one row per tax code a transaction line can be taxed under, pointing at the tax type that decides how the tax behaves.
- taxitemtaxgroupThe tax-item supertype: one row per tax code and tax group together, which is the surface a transaction line's tax pointer actually resolves against.