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RsimonAlign
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Filter Data

Hi ,

 

I have a uge fact table (SQL Server) with 1M (rows detail) of customers sell data.

I also have an Excel file with a 20 customers.

 

What is the best way to reduce the amount of data from the fact so retrive just the details of the 20 customers from the excel file.

 

TNX

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ImkeF
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Hi @RsimonAlign ,

it's important that your query folds, meaning that the filtering is done at the server.
This shows how to do it: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Parameterized-SQL-Query-with-query-folding/td-p/171503

 

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amitchandak
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@ImkeF , Can you help with this.

pass the excel value as a parameter for the sales query

 

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do you have an example?

@RsimonAlign ,

 

I have asked Super User @ImkeF  for help.

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