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MaxItaly
Helper III
8 years ago
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Help creating a table based on another one (only distinct value)

Hello everyone, I'm having some problems trying to create a table. Let's say I have a table named "Table1", that has "Client", "Quantity". I may have more rows for the same "Client" with different...
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    MFelix
    8 years ago

    Hi MaxItaly,

     

    You need to create a new table with the following sintax:

     

    Table2 = SUMMARIZE(Table1,Table1[Client],"Quantit"y, SUM(Table1[Quantity]))

     

    You can also duplicate the table on the query editor and choose transform make a group by client and sum the quantity.

     

     

     


    Regards

    MFelix

     

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MFelix
Super User
8 years ago

But just be aware that if you just want to summarize your table you don't need to do an additional table, you can use measures and visuals to give that result and only have 1 single table.

 

Regards,

MFelix

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MaxItaly
Helper III
8 years ago

I know it, but way too often the tables are not optimized for Business Intelligence operations   :(

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    MFelix
    Super User
    8 years ago

    No problem, you should use the Query to optimize your data and then use the measures to make your visuals. But this is just a good practice, because duplicating tables will have an impact on your analisys but also on size of files, dependency and overall performance.

     

    Regards,

    MFelix