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Anonymous
5 years agoNot applicable
Power query group rows and only keep row with highest value
Hi People, My table looks as follows. Name Number Value John 1 100 John 2 200 Bert 1 150 My desired output is Name Number Value John 2 200 Bert 1 1...
- 5 years ago
Here is one way to do it. To see how it works, just create a blank query, go to Advanced Editor, and replace the text there with the M code below. Note that the Table.Buffer is needed to maintain the desired descending sort order.
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45W8srPyFPSUTIEYQMDpVgduJARCEOFnFKLSmCqTIFCsQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Name = _t, Number = _t, Value = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Name", type text}, {"Number", Int64.Type}, {"Value", Int64.Type}}), #"Sorted Rows" = Table.Buffer(Table.Sort(#"Changed Type",{{"Number", Order.Descending}})), #"Removed Duplicates" = Table.Distinct(#"Sorted Rows", {"Name"}) in #"Removed Duplicates"Pat
marc_frei
Helper I
4 years agoI'm wondering which way is less cpu/ram consuming with a lot of data?