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jarthda
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Foreign keys in s SQL model

Should I sum an integer in a parent table based on category in a child table?  This happens automatically in when I sum from a category already in the parent table but does not seem to work for categories in the child table. Is there something I must do? 

 

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amitchandak
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@jarthda , The information you have provided is not making the problem clear to me. Can you please explain with an example.

Appreciate your Kudos.


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v-yingjl
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Hi @jarthda ,

I have created two tables and a measure to try to get it:

parent tableparent tablechild tablechild table

Measure =
SUMX (
    SUMMARIZE (
        'Parent table',
        'Parent table'[ID],
        'Parent table'[Group],
        'Parent table'[Value1],
        'Parent table'[Value2]
    ),
    VAR _id = 'Parent table'[ID]
    VAR _group = 'Parent table'[Group]
    RETURN
        CALCULATE (
            SUM ( 'Parent table'[Value1] ),
            FILTER (
                'Child table',
                'Child table'[Group] = _group
                    && 'Child table'[ID] = _id
            )
        )
)

Best Regards,
Yingjie Li

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Thank you for this solution. .I see it takes quite a bit in Power BI to agregate across a well defined SQL Schema. I'm wondering why don't I just do it in SQL?  Let me play with it for a while and see how it works. Thanks so much. i will vote up after.

 

 

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