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Anonymous
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8 years ago
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Linking 2 Tables

I have 2 tables I'm attempting to link together through a middle table with unique values which are people's names. I took the names from both tables, appended the tables, and removed duplicates so t...
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    Greg_Deckler
    8 years ago

    Well, first thing to do is to check if this is the problem. Create two measures and display them in card visuals:

     

    Measure 7 = COUNT('Table10'[Text])
    
    Measure 8 = DISTINCTCOUNT('Table10'[Text])

    If you get different values, you have an issue.

     

    Then, typically what you do is to go into Power Query and do a Trim and Clean before your remove duplicates. It is often handy to sort the column in the model and visually inspect.

     

    You can figure out what values are duplicated by doing this:

     

    Table = SUMMARIZE(Table10,Table10[Text],"Count",COUNTROWS(Table10))