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unitstypeuom

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The individual units inside a units-of-measure family: name, abbreviation, the base-unit marker and the conversion rate that turns this unit into the family's base unit.

Module: ItemsNo partition column
Grain note

conversionrate is stated RELATIVE TO THE FAMILY'S BASE UNIT (the row where baseunit is 'T'), not to the unit on the line you are converting — converting between two non-base units means two hops, never one multiplication.

Notes

Browser page name is unitsTypeUom (label "Units"). Its key column is internalid, not id — one of the two records here that spell the internal id that way (pricing is the other), and a routine cause of a join that returns nothing. pricing.saleunit is the attested edge into this record; transactionline.units holds the same kind of unit id, but no page-attested join backs it, so this catalog draws no edge for it.

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

8 fields · 1 key

8 fields.

Table fields: position, field name, description, data type, and flags. 8 fields.
#FieldDescriptionTypeFlags
1internalidInternal IDNUMBER
Primary-key field
2unitstypeUnits-of-measure family this unit belongs to (internal id)NUMBER
3unitnameUnit nameVARCHAR
4pluralnamePlural nameVARCHAR
5abbreviationAbbreviationVARCHAR
6pluralabbreviationPlural abbreviationVARCHAR
7baseunitThis unit is the family's base unit — the one every conversion rate is stated againstVARCHAR
8conversionrateRate converting this unit to the family's base unitNUMBER

Field provenance: hand-curated. 1 key field.

Boilerplate SQL

Starting point for reading the Connect-landed copy of unitstypeuom 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

2 parameters not filled: <catalog>, <schema>

-- ============================================================
-- Table  : unitstypeuom — The individual units inside a units-of-measure family: name, abbreviation, the base-unit marker and the conversion rate that turns this unit into the family's base unit.
-- Purpose: Column-selected read of unitstypeuom — auto-generated from field metadata
-- Grain  : One row per internalid
-- Caution: conversionrate is stated RELATIVE TO THE FAMILY'S BASE UNIT (the row where baseunit is 'T'), not to the unit on the line you are converting — converting between two non-base units means two hops, never one multiplication.
-- 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.internalid AS "Internal ID",
  t.unitstype AS "Units-of-measure family this unit belongs to (internal id)",
  t.unitname AS "Unit name",
  t.pluralname AS "Plural name",
  t.abbreviation AS "Abbreviation",
  t.pluralabbreviation AS "Plural abbreviation",
  t.baseunit AS "This unit is the family's base unit — the one every conversion rate is stated against",  -- 'T'/'F' string — compare = 'T', or CAST via CASE; see quirks #tf-booleans
  t.conversionrate AS "Rate converting this unit to the family's base unit"
FROM <catalog>.<schema>.unitstypeuom t
WHERE
  1 = 1  -- no partition column on this record; the filters below are optional
  -- no lastmodifieddate on this record — there is no watermark column, so incremental extraction must full-refresh it (see quirks #deletes)
ORDER BY t.internalid;

Verified August 2026 · Analytics Browser 2021.1 · corroborated 2025.2

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

  • unitstypeuomunitstypeforeign key · N:1
    ON unitstypeuom.unitstype = unitstype.id
  • pricingunitstypeuomforeign key · N:1
    ON pricing.saleunit = unitstypeuom.internalid
  • quantitypricingscheduleunitstypeuomforeign key · N:1
    ON quantitypricingschedule.unit = unitstypeuom.internalid
  • bomrevisioncomponentunitstypeuomforeign key · N:1
    ON bomrevisioncomponent.units = unitstypeuom.internalid
  • itemdemandplanunitstypeuomforeign key · N:1
    ON itemdemandplan.units = unitstypeuom.internalid
  • itemsupplyplanunitstypeuomforeign key · N:1
    ON itemsupplyplan.units = unitstypeuom.internalid

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