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Hi All,
I would like to create a measure to check if the IDs are present in both tables or not but there is no relationship between the
two tables.
Table 1:
ID | Role | Provider |
1 | Psy | ABC |
2 | Speech | DEF |
3 | OT | XYZ |
4 | ST | EDC |
Table 2:
ID | Role | Provider |
1 | Psy | ABC |
2 | Speech | DEF |
6 | OT | TGB |
7 | SP | QAZ |
I want to create a measure to find the difference of values between two tables.
Output:
Table 1 | Table 2 | Diff |
4 | 2 | 2 |
So 4 is total IDs from the first table, 2 is matching IDs from the 2nd table and the difference is 2 which is the last two IDs are not in second table.
Is this doable in power bi?
Thanks in advance.
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Hello @P_P2595
Create one column in Table 1 to get the matching records in Table 2 and its calculation looks as below:
Table 2 ID = LOOKUPVALUE('Table 2'[ID],'Table 2'[ID],'Table 1'[ID])
Output looks as below:
Now create three measures as below:
Total ID's in Table 1 = COUNT('Table 1'[ID])
Matching with Table 2 =
Var A = COUNT('Table 2'[ID])
Var B = COUNT('Table 1'[Table 2 ID])
Return
A-B
Difference = [Total ID's in Table 1] - [Matching with Table 2]
Drag all three into a table visual your output looks as below:
If this post helps, then please consider accepting it as the solution to help other members find it more quickly. Thank You!!
Hello @P_P2595
Create one column in Table 1 to get the matching records in Table 2 and its calculation looks as below:
Table 2 ID = LOOKUPVALUE('Table 2'[ID],'Table 2'[ID],'Table 1'[ID])
Output looks as below:
Now create three measures as below:
Total ID's in Table 1 = COUNT('Table 1'[ID])
Matching with Table 2 =
Var A = COUNT('Table 2'[ID])
Var B = COUNT('Table 1'[Table 2 ID])
Return
A-B
Difference = [Total ID's in Table 1] - [Matching with Table 2]
Drag all three into a table visual your output looks as below:
If this post helps, then please consider accepting it as the solution to help other members find it more quickly. Thank You!!
Hi @P_P2595 .
There are maybe several ways to create the desired output.
One way is to create the output table by
- selecting New table, from "Model view"
- Implementing DAX-logic to derive the following columns:
--- count of distinct id's in table 1 (e.g. 4)
--- count of distinct id's in both table 1 and 2 (e.g. 2)
--- Ids in table 1 but not in table 2 (e.g. 4-2=2)
Kind regards.
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