unitstypeuom
masterThe 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.
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.
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.
- 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
8 fields · 1 key
8 fields.
| # | Field | Description | Type | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | internalid | Internal ID | NUMBER | Primary-key field |
| 2 | unitstype | Units-of-measure family this unit belongs to (internal id) | NUMBER | |
| 3 | unitname | Unit name | VARCHAR | |
| 4 | pluralname | Plural name | VARCHAR | |
| 5 | abbreviation | Abbreviation | VARCHAR | |
| 6 | pluralabbreviation | Plural abbreviation | VARCHAR | |
| 7 | baseunit | This unit is the family's base unit — the one every conversion rate is stated against | VARCHAR | |
| 8 | conversionrate | Rate converting this unit to the family's base unit | NUMBER |
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.
2 parameters not filled: <catalog>, <schema>
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-- 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.
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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)
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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 unitstypeuom.unitstype = unitstype.idON pricing.saleunit = unitstypeuom.internalidON quantitypricingschedule.unit = unitstypeuom.internalidON bomrevisioncomponent.units = unitstypeuom.internalidON itemdemandplan.units = unitstypeuom.internalidON itemsupplyplan.units = unitstypeuom.internalid
More Items tables
- itemThe unified item master: one row for every item type — inventory, non-inventory, service, kit, assembly — discriminated by itemtype and subtype, carrying costing, pricing, planning parameters and global quantity rollups.
- itemmemberThe generic component record — analytics label "Members": one row per member line of a parent item, carrying the component, its parent, the quantity, the component yield and the effective/obsolete revision window. It is the shape the kit, item-group and assembly member records all repeat.
- itemsubsidiarymapThe item-to-subsidiary bridge: two columns, one row per item per subsidiary the item is available in. This is the item side of OneWorld scoping.
- itemvendorThe item sourcing sublist: one row per item, vendor and subsidiary, with the vendor's part code, preferred flag and purchase price.
- unitstypeThe units-of-measure header: one row per UOM family (weight, each, volume). The individual units and their conversion rates hang off the joined unitstypeuom record.