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dkay84_PowerBI
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago
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Power Query Challenge for you M Ninjas

I would like a query or function that will append every column in a table into a single list with dups removed.  The names and number of columns is random so the solution needs to be dynamic.
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  • MarcelBeug's avatar
    MarcelBeug
    9 years ago

    How about:

    List.Distinct(List.Union(Table.ToColumns(Tabel1)))

    (This is the entire query code) 

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MarcelBeug
Community Champion
9 years ago

How about:

List.Distinct(List.Union(Table.ToColumns(Tabel1)))

(This is the entire query code) 

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neurojelly
New Member
8 years ago

Hi Marcel,

 

Could you also do?:

List.Distinct(Table.Schema(Table1)[Name])

 

Question about List.Union:

I understand that "The returned list contains all items in any input lists" and the Union is operating on the output of Table.ToColumns which returns a nested list of "columns of values". However since our values are all coming from the same table can't we just grab the table columns directly as in my first question above?

 

Closeing statement:

Almost every time I visit this site your solution is typically chosen as the answer. I understand what it would take to accomplish this and its impressive. Really great work. Thanks for all your posts clarifying the use of the M language on this forum.