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Cevola
1 year agoHelper I
Pseudonymizing the personal data
Hello all, I have 2 columns with personal data in my table(Employee ID and Badge ID). I need to provide data to the customer but I cannot share these 2 columns as they contain personal data. ...
- 1 year ago
Here it is:
Original table:
The indexes created. For this sample it runs 1:1, but I assume that in the actual data the same combination of employee id and badge id will occur multiple times:
The merge:
The end result:
All queries:
// Original Table let Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content], #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Employee Id", Int64.Type}, {"Start Location", type text}, {"End Location", type text}, {"Start Time", type datetime}, {"End Time", type datetime}, {"Day of the Week", type text}, {"Duration", type time}, {"Badge ID", Int64.Type}}) in #"Changed Type" // Indexes let Source = #"Original Table", #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(Source,{"Employee Id", "Badge ID"}), #"Removed Duplicates" = Table.Distinct(#"Removed Other Columns"), #"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"Removed Duplicates", "Index", 1, 1, Int64.Type) in #"Added Index" // End Result let Source = #"Original Table", #"Merged Queries" = Table.NestedJoin(Source, {"Employee Id", "Badge ID"}, Indexes, {"Employee Id", "Badge ID"}, "Indexes", JoinKind.LeftOuter), #"Expanded Indexes" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Merged Queries", "Indexes", {"Index"}, {"Index"}), #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Expanded Indexes",{"Employee Id", "Badge ID"}) in #"Removed Columns"
PwerQueryKees
1 year agoSuper User
Here it is:
Original table:
The indexes created. For this sample it runs 1:1, but I assume that in the actual data the same combination of employee id and badge id will occur multiple times:
The merge:
The end result:
All queries:
// Original Table
let
Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content],
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Employee Id", Int64.Type}, {"Start Location", type text}, {"End Location", type text}, {"Start Time", type datetime}, {"End Time", type datetime}, {"Day of the Week", type text}, {"Duration", type time}, {"Badge ID", Int64.Type}})
in
#"Changed Type"
// Indexes
let
Source = #"Original Table",
#"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(Source,{"Employee Id", "Badge ID"}),
#"Removed Duplicates" = Table.Distinct(#"Removed Other Columns"),
#"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"Removed Duplicates", "Index", 1, 1, Int64.Type)
in
#"Added Index"
// End Result
let
Source = #"Original Table",
#"Merged Queries" = Table.NestedJoin(Source, {"Employee Id", "Badge ID"}, Indexes, {"Employee Id", "Badge ID"}, "Indexes", JoinKind.LeftOuter),
#"Expanded Indexes" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Merged Queries", "Indexes", {"Index"}, {"Index"}),
#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Expanded Indexes",{"Employee Id", "Badge ID"})
in
#"Removed Columns"