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Anonymous
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Calculated Column duplicates

Hi,

 

Would somebody please be able to help me with a calculated column to check in a fact table, if two columns are the same then 1, but if they have already existed once then 0 like in the image below in the output column.

 

Deleting duplicates can't happen as these are rows of data with more columns.

 

Row 1Row 2Output
111
221
220
331
220

 

Thanks

 

Liam

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Greg_Deckler
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You would need an Index column for that to define "before". If you had that you could do this:

 

Column = 
  VAR __Table = FILTER('Table',[Row 1] = EARLIER([Row 1]) && [Row 2] = EARLIER([Row 2]) && [Index] < EARLIER([Index])
RETURN
  IF(COUNTROWS(__Table) > 0,0,1)

 

 



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Greg_Deckler
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You would need an Index column for that to define "before". If you had that you could do this:

 

Column = 
  VAR __Table = FILTER('Table',[Row 1] = EARLIER([Row 1]) && [Row 2] = EARLIER([Row 2]) && [Index] < EARLIER([Index])
RETURN
  IF(COUNTROWS(__Table) > 0,0,1)

 

 



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Anonymous
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@Greg_Deckler

 

Ignore that, thats worked thanks so much

Cool, it wouldn't be the first time I got a bit of syntax wrong as many times I don't actually test these things!!


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Anonymous
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Hi @Greg_Deckler ,

 

Thankyou for your reply! The formula says the syntax for RETURN in incorrect currently

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