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Table Relationships
Got a newbie question about how to relate tables together.
I have ~15 tables in my data viz and about the only common column between them all is my designator for 'Site' which is either a Power Query calculation or data pulled from the data source. When i started there were two tables so i just made a relationship between those two sites using 'Site'. As i was tasked to add more data i just kept relating 'Site' in the first table to 'Site' in all the new tables.
At this point i am getting some strange behaviour that I dont understand. It occured to me that maybe in need a ?Site Table? to relate all the other tables to instead of the first data table. I think sometimes a "Data Table" is used do the same thing.
My question, would it be benefical to create this ?Site Table? with one column that had all the sites i use and point all the other tables to it?
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ghutchins , Based on what I got, If you have multiple tables having sites, you need to create it has dimension
You can do same in power query too
amitchandak What does "create as a dimension" mean? do i create a table with all the sites then make a 1-many realtionship between this new table and the other ~15 existing tables?
amitchandak I got an email asking if this is an acceptable solution. It very well may be but I still have quesiton above since I am so new at PBI
