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Identifying and filtering duplicates

I have tryed to solve this with DAX on/off for a couple of weeks now with limited success.

 

I have a large table that each day is filled with subscription data by a script, sometimes the script runs twice, and create duplicate data with different timestamps (DateTime collum).

I wish to identify the duplicates and filter them out in my visuals.

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My idea was to first identify if there was a duplicate entry on a given date by counting SubscriptionID, since this should be uniqe each day, adding a True/False collum called "Have Duplicate". Then I would add a True/False collum called "Is Duplicate" determing this using the "Have Duplicate" collum and setting all entries after the first DateTime as True.

 

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I can do a count on SubscriptionID just fine, idetifing if there is duplicates, but as soon as I try to use DateTime to set the "Is Duplicate" it breaks.

 

I have a DateTable that is related to the Date collum, and I suspect that it is the one breaking it, buy have run out of ideas to solve this.

 

Best Regards

Ole

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Anonymous
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Did you tried selecting all the columns except the timestamp column? Do you maybe have some sample data? 

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Anonymous
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If you want to remove the duplicates, you can achieve this using Power Query. 

Select all the columns except the date column, click Remove Rows > select "Remove Duplicates"

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It was the first thing I tried, but since they are not really duplicates, just duplicate data, with different timestamps (DateTime), havn't I been able to get that approach to work for me. 

 

I might be doing something wrong ?

 

Anonymous
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Did you tried selecting all the columns except the timestamp column? Do you maybe have some sample data? 

That worked, thanks alot 🙂

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