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PshemekFLK
Helper IV
Helper IV

Append with only new fields from second table

Hello,

 

I have two tables which I want to append. Table 1 has  products repeated many times due to multiple items under each product. In the second table I have product fields with unique values and no item field.

 

I would like to append the tables resulting only in new products from table 2 being added to table 1.

 

Table 1

Product             Item

A                         1

B                         2

B                         3

C                         4

C                         5

 

Table 2

Product    

A                                                 

B                         

C                         

D

 

Desired result:

Product          Item

A                         1

B                         2

B                         3

C                         4

C                         5

D                        null

 

What I'm getting with an append: 

 

Product          Item

A                         1

B                         2

B                         3

C                         4

C                         5

A                     null

B                     null

C                     null

D                     null

 

"Removing Duplicates" will not work of course as it will not only get rid of null items but the relevant items as well. It seems like I'm missing an easy solution here.

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CNENFRNL
Community Champion
Community Champion

Use Anti-join to extract specific records,

let
    Tab1 = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WclTSUTJUitWJVnICsozgLGMwyxnIMoGzTJViYwE=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Product = _t, Item = _t]),
    Tab2 = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WclSK1YlWcgKTzmDSRSk2FgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Product = _t]),

    #"LeftAnti Join" = Table.NestedJoin(Tab2, "Product", Tab1, "Product", "t1", JoinKind.LeftAnti),
    Appended = Tab1 & Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"LeftAnti Join", "t1", {"Item"}, {"Item"})
in
    Appended

Screenshot 2021-05-28 171530.png


Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

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CNENFRNL
Community Champion
Community Champion

Use Anti-join to extract specific records,

let
    Tab1 = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WclTSUTJUitWJVnICsozgLGMwyxnIMoGzTJViYwE=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Product = _t, Item = _t]),
    Tab2 = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WclSK1YlWcgKTzmDSRSk2FgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Product = _t]),

    #"LeftAnti Join" = Table.NestedJoin(Tab2, "Product", Tab1, "Product", "t1", JoinKind.LeftAnti),
    Appended = Tab1 & Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"LeftAnti Join", "t1", {"Item"}, {"Item"})
in
    Appended

Screenshot 2021-05-28 171530.png


Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

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