Qlik duplicate record logic

[peter_put]

When I load a table with identical records like:

Table:
load * inline [
Name, Age
Peter, 20
Peter, 20
Alice, 30
Alice, 30
];

And I display the chart, with sum(Age) I get 40 for the 2 Peters and 60 for 2 Alices.

When I add the following script line

inner join (Table) load distinct Age resident Table where Age = 20;

I keep the records for Peter however sum(Age) is now 20 instead of 40.

I can workaround the issue when I add RowNo() to the table to make the records unique but I don't understand why Qlik behaves like this.

Can someone please explain?

Kind regards,

Peter

[ahaahaaha]

Hi Peter,

Solving your problem as an variant

Table:

LOAD Distinct*;

load * inline [

Name, Age

Peter, 20

Peter, 20

Alice, 30

Alice, 30

];

In your code, all the same lines are summed up, and function RowNo() makes each line unique.

Regards,

Andrey