Direct Query Report - how to create left join relationship

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I need to create a report with direct query for two data sources, from different servers. I am trying to create a relationship between the two sources, but it behaves as an inner join and I would need a left join between the tables. Can this be achieved?

Thank you.

[parry2k]

@Anonymous logically you don't specify the join type in a relationship? What makes you think it is inner join and what you are trying to achieve with outer join? Can you share sample data and expected output.

[Anonymous]

hello @parry2k 

I cannot specify the type of join when creating the realtionship, as you can see below. The output of this relationship is only the common title_ids between the two tables.

What I need is all the title_ids from the Query1, even if they have or not a correspondent in the TITLE table. Thank you.

[parry2k]

@Anonymous it  depends on which table you are using for titles, if you use it from query 1, you will see all the titles. As a better design, Title should always have value that is in Query1 but I know sometime these things are not possible.

[Anonymous]

Hello @parry2k ,

I am using TitleID from query1, but I want to display next to it the title name from the other table. When I add the title_name in a visual I get no results for the titles which are not found in the second table. I am not sure how I could get all title_ids and their associated title_names, if any.