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Hi - I am looking to do the following in my Power Query workflow. I would like create a table of values not found comparing two tables. Example:
Table 1
| MS-ID | AC-ID |
| 1 | 500 |
| 1 | 600 |
| 2 | 500 |
| 2 | 555 |
| 2 | 600 |
| 2 | 750 |
| 3 | 600 |
Table 2
MS-ID | AC-ID | Date |
| 1 | 500 | 11/1/2024 |
| 1 | 500 | 12/1/2024 |
| 2 | 500 | 11/15/2024 |
| 2 | 555 | 1/1/2025 |
| 2 | 600 | 2/2/2025 |
Table 3 - Final Table
| MS-ID | AC-ID |
| 1 | 600 |
| 2 | 750 |
| 3 | 600 |
Therefore, table 3 consist of the rows in table 1 which are NOT in table 2.
Any thoughts ?
Jerry
Solved! Go to Solution.
Yes:
= Table.NestedJoin(Table1, {"AC-ID", "MS-ID"}, Table2, {"AC-ID", "MS-ID"}, "DeleteThis", JoinKind.LeftAnti)
Thank you everyone for your help - appreciate it!
I acheive the end result using some creative joins!
Table.RemoveMatchingRows(Table1, Table.ToRecords(Table2), {"MS-ID", "AC-ID"})
I would never have thought of that combination of arguments with RemoveMatchingRows!
You can use List.Difference so, intially removed the column Date on the second table, then convert each one into a list by Table.ToRows, then use the List.Transform.
to see the preocess, just copy the next code into the advance editor
let
Table1= Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUTI1MFCK1YGwzaBsIyRxMNvUFM5GVmNuCmEbw8RjAQ==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"MS-ID" = _t, #"AC-ID" = _t]),
Table2 = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUTI1MACShob6hvpGBkYmSrE6KOJGyOJGKOpN0SRMTUESEPWmcGEzsHojfSOocCwA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"MS-ID" = _t, #"AC-ID" = _t, Date = _t]),
Custom1 = List.Difference(Table.ToRows(Table1),Table.ToRows(Table.RemoveColumns(Table2,"Date"))),
Custom2 = Table.FromRows(Custom1)
in
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Why that sounds like a LeftAnti join.
Yes:
= Table.NestedJoin(Table1, {"AC-ID", "MS-ID"}, Table2, {"AC-ID", "MS-ID"}, "DeleteThis", JoinKind.LeftAnti)
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