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przwrz3
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4 years ago
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Which join to use?

I have to tables: Fact table Contract:   ID Type Value Date 1 reservation 1000 2022-01-01 2 final 1000 2022-01-01   and Customers: ID ContractID Name Address 1 1 ...
  • Vijay_A_Verma's avatar
    4 years ago

    You will need to use Left Outerjoin. See the working here - Open a blank query - Home - Advanced Editor - Remove everything from there and paste the below code to test (later on when you use the query on your dataset, you will have to change the source appropriately. If you have columns other than these, then delete Changed type step and do a Changed type for complete table from UI again)

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUSpKLU4tKkssyczPA/IMDQwMQJS+ob6RgZGRUqxOtJIRUCAtMy8xB4c8yJSQ1OISIGVkCJY2gkvHAgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [ID = _t, Type = _t, Value = _t, Date = _t]),
        #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"ID", Int64.Type}, {"Type", type text}, {"Value", Int64.Type}, {"Date", type date}}),
        #"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"Changed Type", "Index", 0, 1, Int64.Type),
        #"Merged Queries" = Table.NestedJoin(#"Added Index", {"ID"}, Customers, {"ID"}, "Table1", JoinKind.LeftOuter),
        #"Expanded Table1" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Merged Queries", "Table1", {"Name", "Address"}, {"Name", "Address"}),
        #"Sorted Rows" = Table.Sort(#"Expanded Table1",{{"Index", Order.Ascending}}),
        #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Sorted Rows",{"Index"})
    in
        #"Removed Columns"