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CBartkowiak
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2 years ago
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Creating entries in Table A from Table B

Dear experts, I´m a newby on Power BI /Power Query and I hope, you can help me to solve my problem. Thx in advance. I have two tables (Table A and Table B) and I´d like to use B to create entries i...
  • AMeyersen's avatar
    2 years ago

    I'd do it in several steps:

    1. create a subquery containing all distinct customer values
    2. do a cross join with the category table (get each combination of customer/category exactly once)
      https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/cross-join
    3. do a full outer join on your example "Table1" with the result query of step 2. Use columns Customer and Category as join criteria
    4. add custom columns which contain the correct results from each part of the join
    5. delete unnecessary indermediate columns

     

  • CBartkowiak's avatar
    2 years ago

    HI,

    thx for your help and sorry for my late reply. It worked for me.