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Merleau
Helper II
Helper II

Remove rows based on second key in another column

Hello,

I need help filtering out data in a large dataset.

I have a table that looks like this:

Column1

Column2

 Value1

 Value2

 Value3

35

XY-23

  Prod1

  A

 1231

35

XY-23

  Prod2

  C

 1232

35

XY-23

  Prod3

  B

 1233

36

XY-23

  Prod1

  B

 1234

36

XY-23

  Prod3

  B

 1235

36

XY-23

  Prod4

  Y

  20

36

XY-23

  Prod5

  H

  30

40

XY-100

  Prod1

  U

  10

40

XY-100

  Prod9

 

  1

25

XY-100

  Prod2

  C

  1236

25

XY-100

  Prod9

  B

  1237

 

I want to group by Column2, then sort all records in Column1 and keep only the ones with the highest value in Column1.

 

Expected result should be:

 

Column1

 Column2

  Value1

  Value2

  Value3

36

XY-23

  Prod1

  B

 1234

36

XY-23

  Prod3

  B

  1235

36

XY-23

  Prod4

  Y

  20

36

XY-23

  Prod5

  H

  30

40

XY-100

  Prod1

  U

  10

40

XY-100

  Prod9

 

  1

 

Can somebody pls help?

Thanks.

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AlienSx
Super User
Super User

    gr = Table.Group(
        your_tbl, 
        "Column2", 
        {"x", (x) => 
            [a = List.Max(x[Column1]), 
            b = Table.SelectRows(x, (w) => w[Column1] = a)][b]}),
    z = Table.Combine(gr[x])

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Merleau
Helper II
Helper II

Many thanks to @AlienSx  and @PhilipTreacy  for your quick responses. Both solutions work perfectly.

AlienSx
Super User
Super User

    gr = Table.Group(
        your_tbl, 
        "Column2", 
        {"x", (x) => 
            [a = List.Max(x[Column1]), 
            b = Table.SelectRows(x, (w) => w[Column1] = a)][b]}),
    z = Table.Combine(gr[x])
PhilipTreacy
Super User
Super User

Hi @Merleau 

 

Download example PBIX file

 

Duplicate your starting table. 

 

With this table group by Column2 and choose Max of Column1 as the aggregation.  name the new column Column1

 

grpcol.png

 

Which gives

 

grpcol2.png

 

Select this new table and then Merge it with the original table, using Column1 as the matching column

 

grpcol3.png

 

Giving this

 

grpcol4.png

 

Click the double headed arrow in the column header to expand the tables, only choosing the value columns

 

grpcol5.png

 

Rearrange columns as needed

 

grpcol6.png

 

Please check my PBIX file (linked above) for this example data and queries.

 

Regards

 

Phil



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