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DataGuy2016
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9 years ago
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Table Merge creates duplicate records

Hi Folks,   I am stumped.   I am trying to merge two tables into a new table using a LEFT JOIN.  Both tables have unique records on each row.  When I join the tables, BI creates duplicate rows on...
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    DataGuy2016
    9 years ago

    The problem lay with the Data.

     

    The LEFT JOIN functionality of PowerBI works perfectly.

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

I had the same problem and found my solution so thought I'd share it, for what its worth.

 

I had a very large table of data and another table of account details that I was merging to my first data set, but was getting duplicate rows.

 

There was a unique key to link between the 2 tables but hadn't created a relationship on the model window. As it turns out it was a many to many relationship and this is what caused the dulpicates. Since the account table was only there to extract additional info to my first data set, in the account table in the Power Query editor window I simply clicked on my key column and selected remove duplicates to force a many to one relationship and this removed the duplication on merge.