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left outer join using dax, Multiple to Multiple
- 9 years ago
Just playing around with CROSSJOIN and UNION as well and maybe a GENERATE using the nonexisting and ROW to provide space for the BLANK value :-) but now I have to take some sleep
- 9 years ago
Using DAX you can do something like this, but M is probably preferable.
Result = GENERATEALL ( 'Table 1', VAR Table1ID = 'Table 1'[id] RETURN SELECTCOLUMNS ( CALCULATETABLE ( 'Table 2', 'Table 2'[id] = Table1ID ), "price", 'Table 2'[price] ) ) - 9 years ago
Something like this should work. I tested it in a dummy model with physical tables Transformed_TAR, Tostr and 'Table 2' and it worked for me.
Note that I've left you VAR Table1... unchanged except that I've been pedantic and qualified all your column names from Transformed_TAR and Tostr with their table names, e.g. [tag] becomes Transformed_Tar[tag] :
Result = VAR Table1 = UNION ( SELECTCOLUMNS ( FILTER ( Transformed_TAR, Transformed_TAR[current] = "yes" && Transformed_TAR[rem_qty] <> 0 && Transformed_TAR[project phase] = "cons" && Transformed_TAR[P6 ACTIVITY ID] <> BLANK () ), "tag", Transformed_TAR[tag], "id", Transformed_TAR[P6 ACTIVITY ID], "subscan", Transformed_TAR[subscan], "subsystem", Transformed_TAR[TOSTR_Subsystem], "area", Transformed_TAR[Transformed Area], "weight", Transformed_TAR[weight], "drawing", Transformed_TAR[drawing], "phase", Transformed_TAR[project phase], "CREW", Transformed_TAR[crew], "Module", Transformed_TAR[Module], "rem_qty", Transformed_TAR[rem_qty] ), SELECTCOLUMNS ( FILTER ( Tostr, Tostr[remaining_ITR] <> 0 && Tostr[P6 activity id] <> BLANK () ), "tag", Tostr[tag], "id", Tostr[P6 activity id], "subscan", Tostr[subscan], "subsystem", Tostr[SUBSYSTEM], "area", Tostr[Area], "weight", Tostr[weight], "drawing", Tostr[SHEET], "phase", Tostr[Phase], "CREW", Tostr[crew], "Module", Tostr[Module], "rem_qty", Tostr[remaining_ITR] ) ) RETURN GENERATEALL ( Table1, VAR Table1ID = [id] RETURN SELECTCOLUMNS ( CALCULATETABLE ( 'Table 2', 'Table 2'[id] = Table1ID ), "price", 'Table 2'[price] ) )
I need to do it in DAX using calculated table, not PowerQuery, the reason is table 1 and table 2 are already loaded in the Data model using some heavy PowerQery Transformation, which take nearly 20 minutes,
ideally if PQ supported loading table from existing data model, it would have been great, but that's not the case now, I thought it can be possible using DAX.
Silly me, sorry for bothering ...
The DAX functions NATURALLEFTOUTERJOIN() requires an relationship between the tables (one to many), seems a little strange, but thats how the function currently works.
And you can't create a relationship in dax because none of the two columns is unique.
- mim9 years agoAdvocate V
TomMartens thanks Tom, I thought maybe crossjoin with filter on a common id, plus union where the id do not match may do the tricks !!!
- TomMartens9 years agoSuper User
Just playing around with CROSSJOIN and UNION as well and maybe a GENERATE using the nonexisting and ROW to provide space for the BLANK value :-) but now I have to take some sleep