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Nick2
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

Duplicate to null and date to integer

Hey Guys,   I have the issue, that my data involves dates, some with duplicates, some without. Now what I need/want to do, is: 1.  instead of deleting the duplicates make them to null values. 2. ...
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v-piga-msft
Resident Rockstar
8 years ago

Hi Nick2,

 

Have you solved your problem?

 

If you have solved, please always accept the replies making sense as solution to your question so that people who may have the same question can get the solution directly.

 

If you still need help, please feel free to ask.

 

Best Regards,

Cherry

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Nick2
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

Hi v-piga-msft,

 

tahnks for the quick answer, I'm sorry it took me so long to reply. Sadly your answer doesn't quit fix the problem, which is my fault as I wasn't precise enough. My Data looks like this:

DateSpace
11.06.2018A
12.06.2018B
13.06.2018A
13.06.2018A+C
14.06.2018B
14.06.2018C
15.06.2018C
16.06.2018 
17.06.2018A
17.06.2018B
17.06.2018C

Now there are always three rooms available (A,B,C) but not always booked and I need to know how booked we actually are. My idea was to find this out, by replacing the date with a 3, the letter with a 1, take the sums and divide the values. This obviously means, that:

1. I need to remove the dates that are more often named then one (two or three times, I misused the word duplicate, sry!) but without deleting them as I need the information from the other column. Which is why I wanted to transform them into null values.

2. change the remaining date values to 3 (as in reallity those are way more, without addressing all of them single handly)

 

I hope this clarifys the issue, again I'm sorry if I wasn't precise enough and I hope you'll still be able to help out.

 

greetings, Nick