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Anonymous
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4 years ago

Table structure

Hi,

I'm working with data that will have about 10 million rows per day. Currently, the rows are nested which is something Power BI can't handle. The question that arises is the structure of the table. We have sessions where each sessions has multiple moments. We are trying to avoid the increase of rows, if we have 5 moments, then each session will have 5 rows with one type of moment per row. I know Power BI wants to work with rows and columns in a tabular format, but is there an optimal way to have for example one moment per column and at the same time have one session per row? Tables to try to explain it:

 

Session ID      Moment A   Moment B   Moment C

123A305020
231B103020
321C904050

 

Session ID     Moment   Time

123AA30
123AB50
123AC20
231BA10
231BB30
231BC20
321CA90
321CB40
321CC50

 

We want to be able to show the percentage of the total, so for session ID 123A Moment A, it's 30% of the total etc.

Thanks and Merry Christmas!
/Jari

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  • Anonymous , the second one is ideal for you need but if you have 10 Million per day. Unpivot of this data will take huge time and may not work.

     

    In that case if you have limited columns you can try like

     

    divide(sum(Table[ColumnA]), sum(Table[ColumnA])+sum(Table[ColumnB])+sum(Table[ColumnC])+sum(Table[ColumnD])+sum(Table[ColumnE]))

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    Anonymous
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    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    You will nedd to either unpivot the table and create one measure to get the percentage value or create multiple measures for each Moment.

     

    Best Regards,

    Jay