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commonsenseuser's avatar
6 years ago
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Combine 2 different tables and get intersecting rows

Hi,   I have 2 tables (Table 1 and Table 2) and want to create a Table 3 with columns as follows: Table 1:   Table 2:   Table 3:   Table 1 and table 2 have different numb...
  • parry2k's avatar
    6 years ago

    commonsenseuser you don't need 3rd table, just create a surrogate key by combining 3 columns in both the tables and set the relationship between these table on this new key, and from there you can use these into any visuals,  as a best practice, it would make sense to add 3 dimension tables like brand, customer type, and country and have a relationship of these 3 dimension tables with your table 1 and table 2, and from there everything will be super easy to analyze.

     

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  • v-lionel-msft's avatar
    6 years ago

    Hi commonsenseuser ,

     

    Please do like this.

    1. Create a calculated table.

    Table 3 = 'Table 1'

    2. Create a calculated column in 'Table 3'.

    Brand Awareness = 
    LOOKUPVALUE(
        'Table 2'[Brand Awareness],
        'Table 2'[Brand], 'Table 3'[Brand],
        'Table 2'[Customer Type], 'Table 3'[Customer Type],
        'Table 2'[Country], 'Table 3'[Country]
    )

     

    Best regards,
    Lionel Chen

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