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willboyes
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8 years ago
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Replicating vlookup in same table

Hi - apologies if I'm missing something really obvious here, but I'm struggling to replicate a Vlookup in Power BI.   I have a table with 3 columns, the first is a consecutive ID value for each row...
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willboyes
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8 years ago
Thanks very much - that's working now, not sure what I was doing wrong before!
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willboyes
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8 years ago

If I wanted to replicate that approach in the query editor, how could I go about it?  

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    Zubair_Muhammad
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    8 years ago

    willboyes

     

    With Power Query, you can do a self merge of the Table

     

     

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      willboyes
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      8 years ago
      Brilliant - worked first time!
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      huguest
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      7 years ago

      Hello,

       

      I have a similar situation within a table that has a lot of columns and data also coming from other tables in a pretty complex model.

       

      When I add that Merge step, followed by an Expand step, it causes my refresh to get hung and my report will no longer update.

       

      I tried creating a simplified copy of the table to Merge and Expand from, but I am still running into the same issue.  

       

      Any idea/suggestion?