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ovetteabejuela
Impactful Individual
Impactful Individual

Nested Crossjoin Quadrupled my Data

I have this DAX Code: and it quadrupled my value, is there something wrong with double crossjoins?

 

 

Get Total Hours = 
SELECTCOLUMNS(
	FILTER(
		CROSSJOIN(table_c,
			FILTER(
				CROSSJOIN(table_a,table_b),
				table_a[employee_id] = table_b[employee_id] &&
				table_a[start_date] >= table_b[date_effective_start] &&
				table_a[start_date] <= table_b[date_effective_end] &&
				table_a[start_date] >= table_b[date_production]
					)
				),
		table_a[str_buid_state_code] = table_c[str_buid_state_code] && 
		table_a[start_date] >= table_c[date_effective_start] && 
		table_a[start_date] <= table_c[date_effective_end]
              ),
	"Field Name 1", table_a[start_date],
	"Field Name 2", table_a[employee_id],
	"Field Name 3", table_b[supvsr_id],
	"Field Name 4", table_c[sys_description],
	"Field Name 5", table_a[duration], //this value Quadrupled
	"Field Name 6", table_c[flag_a],
	"Field Name 7", table_b[id_dept],
	"Field Name 8", table_b[id_role],
	"Field Name 1", table_b[flag_active_employee]
			)

 

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Phil_Seamark
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

There is nothing wrong with nested CROSS JOINs and they will work as intended.

 

I do recommend a slightly different technique for debugging.  

 

I haven't changed any of your code, just broken out the tables so it's easier to see what is going on.

 

The final RETURN statement can be updated to be RETURN T1  or RETURN T2 etc so you can see how the data looks as you walk through the debugging.

 

So try this

 

Get Total Hours = 

Var T1 = FILTER(
				CROSSJOIN(table_a,table_b),
				table_a[employee_id] = table_b[employee_id] &&
				table_a[start_date] >= table_b[date_effective_start] &&
				table_a[start_date] <= table_b[date_effective_end] &&
				table_a[start_date] >= table_b[date_production]
					)
				)

Var T2 = 	FILTER(
		CROSSJOIN(table_c,T1
			,
		table_a[str_buid_state_code] = table_c[str_buid_state_code] && 
		table_a[start_date] >= table_c[date_effective_start] && 
		table_a[start_date] <= table_c[date_effective_end]
              )

Var T3 = 
SELECTCOLUMNS(T2
,
	"Field Name 1", table_a[start_date],
	"Field Name 2", table_a[employee_id],
	"Field Name 3", table_b[supvsr_id],
	"Field Name 4", table_c[sys_description],
	"Field Name 5", table_a[duration], //this value Quadrupled
	"Field Name 6", table_c[flag_a],
	"Field Name 7", table_b[id_dept],
	"Field Name 8", table_b[id_role],
	"Field Name 1", table_b[flag_active_employee]
			)


Return T3

To learn more about DAX visit : aka.ms/practicalDAX

Proud to be a Datanaut!

View solution in original post

But I would probably create a SUMARIZE table of T2 which removes the duplicating durations.


To learn more about DAX visit : aka.ms/practicalDAX

Proud to be a Datanaut!

View solution in original post

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Phil_Seamark
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

There is nothing wrong with nested CROSS JOINs and they will work as intended.

 

I do recommend a slightly different technique for debugging.  

 

I haven't changed any of your code, just broken out the tables so it's easier to see what is going on.

 

The final RETURN statement can be updated to be RETURN T1  or RETURN T2 etc so you can see how the data looks as you walk through the debugging.

 

So try this

 

Get Total Hours = 

Var T1 = FILTER(
				CROSSJOIN(table_a,table_b),
				table_a[employee_id] = table_b[employee_id] &&
				table_a[start_date] >= table_b[date_effective_start] &&
				table_a[start_date] <= table_b[date_effective_end] &&
				table_a[start_date] >= table_b[date_production]
					)
				)

Var T2 = 	FILTER(
		CROSSJOIN(table_c,T1
			,
		table_a[str_buid_state_code] = table_c[str_buid_state_code] && 
		table_a[start_date] >= table_c[date_effective_start] && 
		table_a[start_date] <= table_c[date_effective_end]
              )

Var T3 = 
SELECTCOLUMNS(T2
,
	"Field Name 1", table_a[start_date],
	"Field Name 2", table_a[employee_id],
	"Field Name 3", table_b[supvsr_id],
	"Field Name 4", table_c[sys_description],
	"Field Name 5", table_a[duration], //this value Quadrupled
	"Field Name 6", table_c[flag_a],
	"Field Name 7", table_b[id_dept],
	"Field Name 8", table_b[id_role],
	"Field Name 1", table_b[flag_active_employee]
			)


Return T3

To learn more about DAX visit : aka.ms/practicalDAX

Proud to be a Datanaut!

But I would probably create a SUMARIZE table of T2 which removes the duplicating durations.


To learn more about DAX visit : aka.ms/practicalDAX

Proud to be a Datanaut!

,

Im mobile right now, Im excited to test out your recommendations. I'll give feedback after performing those. BiG thanks, learned so much from you already from previous posts including this!

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