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jdam0074
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6 years ago
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Join/Merge Tables by Month

I have a table of monthly targets and a table of monthyl forecasts. I want to be able to display the data for both in one monthly bar chart so I'm trying to find a way to maybe merge the tables by th...
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  • parry2k's avatar
    parry2k
    6 years ago

    jdam0074 As a best practice, add date dimension in your model and use it for and time intelligence calculations. Once the date dimension is added, mark it as a date table on table tools.

    https://perytus.com/2020/05/22/create-a-basic-date-table-in-your-data-model-for-time-intelligence-calculations/

     

    connect both tables with date dimension and to visualize use column from date dimension and values from your fact tables.

     

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Greg_Deckler
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6 years ago

jdam0074 - You could do that or just create a Months table and relate it to your other 2 tables. You could try merging them in Power Query. You could also use NATURALINNERJOIN in DAX. You could also use DISTINCT() to create your Months table.