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Is there a way to remove duplicates without breaking query folding? I need the folding (for incremental refresh), but I have a ton of duplicates (I go from 3 0378 271 rows to 10 472 after removing duplicates)...
Use a Group By transform instead - that will fold on SQL data sources.
OPTIONAL - If you don't want an aggregate column added to the rowset (so you want it to behave functionally exactly like a remove duplicates), then edit the M that gets generated to remove the aggregate. For example, turn this:
= Table.Group(Source, {"Grouping Column 1","Grouping Column 2"}, {{"Count", each 1, type Int64}})
into this:
= Table.Group(Source, {"Grouping Column 1","Grouping Column 2"}, {})
@grggmrtn , how are you deleting duplicate as of now, power Query- delete duplicate ?
Yeah, exactly.
Hi @grggmrtn ,
This can happen if the date ranges are set NOT up to as follows: [Date] >= RangeStart and [Date] < RangeEnd. Is your upper bound set to be equal to or less than or just less than?
Refer to this thread:
Best Regards,
Liang
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Hi @V-lianl-msft thanks for the reply...
Your answer would make sense if I had actually set ranges, but I haven't gotten to setting the ranges yet, because query folding on my dataset breaks. The final step in my query (remove duplicates) breaks the folding.
So my question is, how can I remove the duplicates without breaking the folding?
I could use this as well, did you ever find out how to do this?
Table.Distinct() breaks the fold. How do we tell the servers to return a distinct list after all our previous steps?
Never mind. Table.Distinct() only breaks the fold if you use it to remove duplicates from a subset of the tables columns, instead of the whole table. Using Table.Distinct() on the entire table does not break the query folding.
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