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selpaqm
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6 years ago
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Containstring takes ages

Hi,   i have a calculated column contains containstring. it works however each refresh take hours with more than 1000 rows. normally my table has more than 400k rows. so is there any way to speed i...
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  • mwegener's avatar
    mwegener
    6 years ago

    Hi selpaqm ,

     

    I once created a Power Query prototype here. The merging between the two tables can possibly still be optimized.

    See attachement.

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Greg_Deckler
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6 years ago

selpaqm - Perhaps try SEARCH or FIND instead of CONTAINSSTRING?

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selpaqm
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6 years ago

Greg_Deckler  thanks for your suggestion. when i try to use search, I have get "The search Text provided to function 'SEARCH' could not be found in the given text." error.

"minx(filter(table,search(" does not fit.

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    mwegener
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    6 years ago

    Hi selpaqm ,

     

    I once created a Power Query prototype here. The merging between the two tables can possibly still be optimized.

    See attachement.

    • selpaqm's avatar
      selpaqm
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      6 years ago

      mwegener thanks for your work. I think I have trouble on added custom1 (true false contain section) it gives below error.

       

      Expression.Error: We cannot apply operator & to types Number and Text. Details: Operator=& Left=2030691335 Right=
      • mwegener's avatar
        mwegener
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        6 years ago

        Hi selpaqm ,

         

        you are trying to combine a text with a number. Both values must first be converted to the data type text.