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Anonymous
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Comparing Multiple Columns in Rows between Two Queries

I am wondering how to see if there is a row in one query that matches 3 or 4 columns in a different query. For example, I have a job query and an invoice query. I want to know if someone created an invoice for every job. So if a job row has a match on 3 columns in a row of the invoice query it will count it, but otherwise it will not count it. It would also need to ignore duplicates if two rows matched the original row

 

 

A simple example of the two tables:

tables example.JPG

 

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Anonymous
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@Anonymous - I would do the following:

1. Create a new Calculated Column on each table, which concatenates the 3 columns that need to be joined.

2. Create a Relationship between the two tables on this column.

3. Create a Measure like:

First Invoice = MIN('Invoice Query'[Invoice Number])

Hope this helps,

Nathan

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v-chuncz-msft
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@Anonymous ,

 

You may simply try CONTAINS to add a calculated column.

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Anonymous
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Hi @v-chuncz-msft 

 

how woud you create the calculated column for each table? Please can you show me an example?

 

Thanks

Anonymous
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@Anonymous - I would do the following:

1. Create a new Calculated Column on each table, which concatenates the 3 columns that need to be joined.

2. Create a Relationship between the two tables on this column.

3. Create a Measure like:

First Invoice = MIN('Invoice Query'[Invoice Number])

Hope this helps,

Nathan

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