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florent-3628
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Remove duplicate with date condition

Hi,

I'm trying to remove duplicates in a table (column "id")  ; but i want to keep only the most recent .

 

Actually , even if i sort by date before using table.distinct ; the result keep an old date...

 

the table is like this

Version     id     date

v23A02/03/2019
v23B02/04/2019
v24A05/04/2019
v24B06/04/2019
v25A24/05/2019
v25B25/05/2019

 

The actual result after table.distinct :

v23A02/03/2019
v23B02/04/2019

 

The result i want :

v25A24/05/2019
v25B25/05/2019
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Anonymous
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In Edit Queries make sure to filter descending on date. 

 

Then add 

 

    #"Buffer Table" = Table.Buffer(#"Sorted Rows")
in
    #"Buffer Table"

to the advanced editor

 

After that use remove duplicates on ID, it will remember the order and keep v25.

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Anonymous
Not applicable

In Edit Queries make sure to filter descending on date. 

 

Then add 

 

    #"Buffer Table" = Table.Buffer(#"Sorted Rows")
in
    #"Buffer Table"

to the advanced editor

 

After that use remove duplicates on ID, it will remember the order and keep v25.

Hi @Anonymous ,

 

I have the same issue but I want to do it in DAX because I want to keep only the earliest rows from a concatenate create in DAX from 2 different tables... Do you have any idea on how to remove the duplicates but only the latest ones ? 

 

Thanks 🙂 

Hi @Anonymous ,

 

I have the same issue but I want to do it in DAX because I want to keep only the earliest rows from a concatenate create in DAX from 2 different tables... Do you have any idea on how to remove the duplicates but only the latest ones ? 

 

Thanks 🙂 

Thanks a lot ; it works !

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