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Linking two tables with key when values are missing

Hoowling — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 02:25:45 GMT

Hi community,

Need help with an issue that's driving me crazy.

I have two tables where scrap data and used quantity is stored:

As you can see, I do not have scrap occurencies every month, 201904 and 201907 there were no scrapping done.
The link between the tables is Location&YearMonth (Key) - The two tables cannot be joined, this is just a simplied example of my issue.

The resulting table looks like this:

As you can see, the data for 201904 and 201907 is not linked between the tables as there where no scrap in those months.

The expected result is this:

How do I solve this problem?

//Hoowling

Re: Linking two tables with key when values are missing

dplr-rn — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:25:44 GMT

Why dont you left join scrapped quantity table to Used quantity table? (Assuming Used quantity will always have data)
fact:
load
yearmonth
,location
,usedquantity
from xyz;
left join(fact)
load
yearmonth
,location
,scrappedquantity
from abc;

Re: Linking two tables with key when values are missing

StarinieriG — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:29:05 GMT

Hi,

if you use simple join, you'll never lose rows

Re: Linking two tables with key when values are missing

marcus_sommer — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 15:00:35 GMT

It's quite simple if you don't joined or associate the tables else just concatenate (respectively union in sql) them. This could be done directly which creates an asynchron table or you could put both quantities in a single field and adding another field which contained the value of 'Scrapped' respectively 'Used' to be able to differ your quantities.

- Marcus

Re: Linking two tables with key when values are missing

Brett_Bleess — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 15:52:49 GMT

I know you said you did not want to Join things, here is a Design Blog post that could help I think:

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-Design-Blog/Don-t-join-use-Applymap-instead/ba-p/1467592

Couple others that might be handy as well:

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-Design-Blog/To-Join-or-not-to-Join/ba-p/1463102

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-Design-Blog/Concatenate-vs-Link-Table/ba-p/1467569

Regards,
Brett