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Anonymous
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Data Modeling Error

Hi,

 

I am building a relationship among several tables and some auxiliar ones. The auxiliar tables are Month, Companies and Operation.

  • Month has the name of the month and the correspondent month number;
  • Companies has the name of the company and the correspondent Company Code;
  • Operation has the name of the operation and the correspondent Operation Code

I would like to creat a relationship to these tables and the auxiliar ones to access the information presented in the auxiliar ones. The month table is ok. However, I can't access the information in Operations and Companies. The relationship for these 2 are one -> several, for exemple:


Companies
Company Code - Company

1 - Name company Alfa;

2 - Name company Beta;

3 - Name company Gama
 
Table 1
Company code - column 1 - column 2 - column 3
1 - data - data - data - data;
1 - data - data - data - data;
1 - data - data - data - data;

Here are some printscreens. What am I doing wrong here? I thought this could be and easy fix, but I am really struggling in finding a solution. I thought I could easly access information from auxiliar tables by its codes.

 

overview data model.jpg

manage relationship.jpg

error in relationship.jpg

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parry2k
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@Anonymous very hard to tell what is going on. Can you share the pbix file? Remove sensitive information before sharing. 



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parry2k
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@Anonymous Ah! I see you have to 1:1 relationship with month is causing this ambiguity. change that from many to one and it should work, even though fact tables have a single record for each month, force it to many to one with the month table and that should do it. T



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parry2k
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@Anonymous Ah! I see you have to 1:1 relationship with month is causing this ambiguity. change that from many to one and it should work, even though fact tables have a single record for each month, force it to many to one with the month table and that should do it. T



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Anonymous
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It worked! Thank you so much!!

 

BernardoHollman_0-1694720056212.png

 

parry2k
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@Anonymous very hard to tell what is going on. Can you share the pbix file? Remove sensitive information before sharing. 



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Anonymous
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Sure, please find the pbix file.

 

I couldn't upload the file direclty. I am sharing a wetransfer link:

 

https://we.tl/t-aI0i0fknlD

parry2k
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@Anonymous what does unico means when you are setting the relationship? Is it both or single?



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Anonymous
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Hi, sorry I am using a portuguese version. "Único" is like unique or single

parry2k
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@Anonymous is there a relationship between companies and operation table? I cannot tell from the screenshot.



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Anonymous
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No, there isn't. Actually, these 2 tables I created inside Power Query. I wanted them to work just as auxiliar table for other to consulate to. There is no dependencies too:

BernardoHollman_0-1694715437691.png

 

parry2k
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@Anonymous why your month table has relationship 1:1, isn't it suppose to be 1:*, 1 one on Month side



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Anonymous
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Hi friedn!

 

Actually, this is the only relationship that is working for all tables. The 1-to-1 make sense for Month, as all the ables have 12 lines (one for each month). The other ones (Companies and Operation) I can't create a relationship with the other tables.

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