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Vampirtc
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Extract records from Table to Text

The problem is the following:
I need to match two tables, I'm using Left Outer Join.

Second table can have 0,1,2 or more matches.

If I use expand after matching the columns are duplicated.

What I want is to extract matching result (Table) to a single text string.


For example, table1:

ID name
1    mark
2    jack
3    robert
Table2:
ID profession  phone
1 health
1 cleaning
2 manager

after join by using ID
ID name     joined
1    mark    health,cleaning
2    jack      manager
3    robert  null

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CNENFRNL
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@Vampirtc , you are only one step away from your goal,

let
    Table1 = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUcpNLMpWitWJVjICcrISkyEcYyCnKD8ptahEKTYWAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [ID = _t, name = _t]),
    Table2 = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUcpITcwpyVCK1YFwk3NSE/My89LBAkZAgdzEvMT01CKl2FgA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [ID = _t, Profession = _t]),
    #"Left Outer join" = Table.NestedJoin(Table1, "ID", Table2, "ID", "joined", JoinKind.LeftOuter),
    Concatenation = Table.TransformColumns(#"Left Outer join", {"joined", each Text.Combine([Profession], ", ")})
in
    Concatenation

Screenshot 2021-04-26 180237.png


Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

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CNENFRNL
Community Champion
Community Champion

@Vampirtc , you are only one step away from your goal,

let
    Table1 = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUcpNLMpWitWJVjICcrISkyEcYyCnKD8ptahEKTYWAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [ID = _t, name = _t]),
    Table2 = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUcpITcwpyVCK1YFwk3NSE/My89LBAkZAgdzEvMT01CKl2FgA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [ID = _t, Profession = _t]),
    #"Left Outer join" = Table.NestedJoin(Table1, "ID", Table2, "ID", "joined", JoinKind.LeftOuter),
    Concatenation = Table.TransformColumns(#"Left Outer join", {"joined", each Text.Combine([Profession], ", ")})
in
    Concatenation

Screenshot 2021-04-26 180237.png


Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

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