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albalpbi
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Expand tables - PowerQuery or M

Hello everyone,

 

I have two tables: one with dates and one with a list of countries. Example:
Table 1

Date
1/1/2022
1/2/2022
1/3/2022


Table 2

Countries
France
Germany
Italy

 

I'm trying to expand the first table in order to have, for each date, all the countries listed in Table 2. The target table would look like:

DateCountries
1/1/2022France
1/1/2022Germany
1/1/2022Italy
1/2/2022France
1/2/2022Germany
1/2/2022Italy
1/3/2022France
1/3/2022Germany
1/3/2022Italy


Would you know how to help me?

Thank you!

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Ahmedx
Super User
Super User

try to do the opposite, that is, translate the date into the country table

Ahmedx
Super User
Super User

pls try this

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In PowerQuery it seems to work, but when I "Close & Load" the laod just keeps on going endlessly:

albalpbi_0-1683233118873.png

Consider that the largest table in this dataset is 2Gb, and the table we're creating is about 10k rows (40 countries over 250 dates), so I'm not sure about what's going

 

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