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  • PaulDBrown's avatar
    PaulDBrown
    Community Champion

    Anonymous 

     

    I take it the reason you need to create a dimension table from different tables is that not one of the tables contains the complete set of values you need as your lookup table, right? (If not, then just in Power Query create a new query referencing the table containing the whole range of values and then create the relevant relationships to the fact tables)

    I would do it in Power Query using the append function to add all the necessary tables, removing unwanted columns, and removing duplicates from the main field etc...

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable

      What if  there is no table having the whole range of values??

  • v-lid-msft's avatar
    v-lid-msft
    Community Support

    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    If the two tables have one same column but have different value such as ID, we can create a calculated table:

     

    IDTable =
    UNION (
        DISTINCT ( 'Table A'[ID] ),
        DISTINCT ( 'Table B'[ID] )
    )

     

    Best regards,

    Community Support Team _ Dong Li
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable

    I've been making good use of the CROSSJOIN DAX function when creating a new table from existing tables.

     

    It can let you turn two tables such as:

    FoodType
    Fruit
    Vegetable

     

    CookType
    Baked
    Fried

     

    Into:

    FoodTypeCookType
    FruitBaked
    VegetableBaked
    FruitFried
    VegetableFried

     

    If I'm understanding your question, this is what you're looking for?

     

    This can be especially useful with the CALENDAR function / GROUPBY functions if you're combining several tables / want to add a date dimension from thin air. Be careful though - if you have too many dimensions, your record count can grow very quickly.