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currency

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The currency list: one row per currency the account transacts in, with precision, base/anchor flags and a default rate.

Module: FoundationNo partition column
Grain note

the ISO code (USD, EUR) is the `symbol` column; `displaysymbol` holds the glyph ($, €). Joining on the wrong one is the classic first-day mistake.

Notes

exchangerate on this record is the default rate stamped on the currency itself, not a dated rate — per-date rates live on currencyrate and period consolidation rates on consolidatedexchangerate.

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.

Structural facts — how the record is partitioned, not a trap by itself

Subsidiary-scoped
The record carries a subsidiary column 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 location column — an org segment in NetSuite before it is a warehouse — and the generated SQL anchors it the same way.

Join & extract hazards — verify before you rely on this

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.
In field listings, the Key chip marks a primary-key field, and the T/F chip marks a check-box column Connect returns as a 'T'/'F' string.

Fields

13 fields · 1 key

13 fields.

Table fields: position, field name, description, data type, and flags. 13 fields.
#FieldDescriptionTypeFlags
1idInternal IDNUMBER
Primary-key field
2nameCurrency nameVARCHAR
3symbolISO code (USD, EUR) — despite the column nameVARCHAR
4displaysymbolDisplay glyph ($, €)VARCHAR
5symbolplacementSymbol placement (internal id)NUMBER
6exchangerateDefault exchange rate on the currency recordNUMBER
7currencyprecisionDecimal precisionNUMBER
8isbasecurrencyIs a base currencyVARCHAR
9isanchorcurrencyIs the anchor currencyVARCHAR
10isinactiveInactiveVARCHAR
11includeinfxrateupdatesIncluded in automatic rate updatesVARCHAR
12fxrateupdatetimezoneRate-update time zone (internal id)NUMBER
13externalidExternal IDVARCHAR

Field provenance: hand-curated. 1 key field.

Boilerplate SQL

Starting point for reading the Connect-landed copy of currency 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.

Query parameters

3 parameters not filled: <catalog>, <schema>, <id>

-- ============================================================
-- Table  : currency — The currency list: one row per currency the account transacts in, with precision, base/anchor flags and a default rate.
-- Purpose: Column-selected read of currency — auto-generated from field metadata
-- Grain  : One row per id
-- Caution: the ISO code (USD, EUR) is the `symbol` column; `displaysymbol` holds the glyph ($, €). Joining on the wrong one is the classic first-day mistake.
-- Notes  : Auto-generated skeleton for NetSuite data landed in your lakehouse from a SuiteAnalytics Connect (or SuiteQL) extract — it never addresses live NetSuite. Identifiers are lowercase as NetSuite2.com renders them. Select-type columns hold numeric internal ids: BUILTIN.DF() display resolution exists only at extraction time, so decode ids by joining the landed list records; see quirks #display-values. Check-box columns arrive as 'T'/'F' strings; see quirks #tf-booleans.
-- ============================================================
SELECT
  t.id AS "Internal ID",
  t.name AS "Currency name",
  t.symbol AS "ISO code (USD, EUR) — despite the column name",
  t.displaysymbol AS "Display glyph ($, €)",
  t.symbolplacement AS "Symbol placement (internal id)",
  t.exchangerate AS "Default exchange rate on the currency record",
  t.currencyprecision AS "Decimal precision",
  t.isbasecurrency AS "Is a base currency",  -- 'T'/'F' string — compare = 'T', or CAST via CASE; see quirks #tf-booleans
  t.isanchorcurrency AS "Is the anchor currency",  -- '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
  t.includeinfxrateupdates AS "Included in automatic rate updates",  -- 'T'/'F' string — compare = 'T', or CAST via CASE; see quirks #tf-booleans
  t.fxrateupdatetimezone AS "Rate-update time zone (internal id)",
  t.externalid AS "External ID"
FROM <catalog>.<schema>.currency 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)
ORDER BY t.id;

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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

  • transactioncurrencyforeign key · N:1
    ON transaction.currency = currency.id
  • customersubsidiaryrelationshipcurrencyforeign key · N:1
    ON customersubsidiaryrelationship.primarycurrency = currency.id
  • customercurrencyforeign key · N:1
    ON customer.currency = currency.id
  • vendorcurrencyforeign key · N:1
    ON vendor.currency = currency.id
  • pricingcurrencyforeign key · N:1
    ON pricing.currency = currency.id
  • subsidiarycurrencyforeign key · N:1
    ON subsidiary.currency = currency.id
  • currencyratecurrencyforeign key · N:1
    ON currencyrate.basecurrency = currency.id
  • currencyratecurrencyforeign key · N:1
    ON currencyrate.transactioncurrency = currency.id
  • consolidatedexchangeratecurrencyforeign key · N:1
    ON consolidatedexchangerate.fromcurrency = currency.id
  • consolidatedexchangeratecurrencyforeign key · N:1
    ON consolidatedexchangerate.tocurrency = currency.id
  • budgetscurrencyforeign key · N:1
    ON budgets.currency = currency.id

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