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Working with multiple Access DB files
I'm working on a project to comple multiple years of sales data by selling location and by week then be able to create reports against that using Power BI. Typically, I would load my data into an Excel sheet or Access DB table, but because of the design, this quickly outgrew the limits of both of those applications. I found that I could fit an entire year of data into one Access DB file, and I'm aware that you can have multiple DB files in a Power BI project. However, when I want to look at data in a matrix or chart and have year over year, this process doesn't work. I need to be able to create TY/LY calculations to quickly compare years like this:
WK NUM // LOCATION // TY // LY // PCT CHG
1
2
3
ETC
I feel like there's a workaround to join the tables and create custom calculations that will work across those years, but I just can't figure it out. Any help is appreciated.
Also, if there's a better way than Access, I'm all ears....
Hello benaford ,
you can append he two tables (in your case this year and last year) and make them one table in power query.
check it out https://youtu.be/xl2Cc8XugHU?si=N-feHq4OQJVpmTE2
2 Replies
- IdrissshatilaSuper User
Hello benaford ,
you can append he two tables (in your case this year and last year) and make them one table in power query.
check it out https://youtu.be/xl2Cc8XugHU?si=N-feHq4OQJVpmTE2
- benafordFrequent Visitor
Thank you, that works!