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Anonymous
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direct query from db2 for items at powerbi table only

Hi,

I have powerbi table, I want to get some figures of this items in table from DB2 table with odbc.

I dont want to import all table to powerbi and make join.

I want select data of items only exist at Powerbi table

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v-cherch-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @Anonymous

 

It seems there's no better way to do that with odbc. I would suggest you import the DB2 first:

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Then you may use Merge queries for the Query1 and table2 in query editor. Then expend table2 and filter the pno columns<>null.

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let
    Source = Table.NestedJoin(Query1,{"item number"},Table2,{"pno"},"Table2",JoinKind.LeftOuter),
    #"Expanded Table2" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(Source, "Table2", {"pno"}, {"Table2.pno"}),
    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Expanded Table2", each ([Table2.pno] <> null))
in
    #"Filtered Rows"

Regards,

Cherie

 

 

 

Community Support Team _ Cherie Chen
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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v-cherch-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @Anonymous

 

It seems there's no better way to do that with odbc. I would suggest you import the DB2 first:

1.png

Then you may use Merge queries for the Query1 and table2 in query editor. Then expend table2 and filter the pno columns<>null.

1.png

let
    Source = Table.NestedJoin(Query1,{"item number"},Table2,{"pno"},"Table2",JoinKind.LeftOuter),
    #"Expanded Table2" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(Source, "Table2", {"pno"}, {"Table2.pno"}),
    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Expanded Table2", each ([Table2.pno] <> null))
in
    #"Filtered Rows"

Regards,

Cherie

 

 

 

Community Support Team _ Cherie Chen
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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