Guitarmageddon
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So Ill try to keep this concise without meandering and confusing everyone. Im kind of new to power query/pivot so forgive me if Im making some elementary oversights.
I have two different source documents, which I've brought into this workbook and added to the data model, via power query. It is basically some sales data, one is for 2019, the other for 2020. So, as you can imagine, all 2019 months are populated so far, and all 2020 months have just some February data (we work on the NRF calendar so February is our first month fyi)
I have a master table that is basically a date lookup, although date is present on both of the data tables. Since you cant have many/many, I have a master date table that basically is date/month/week number etc.
Then I draw my relationship from that date master into the two data tables. I also follow this logic with a master store number table.
However what Im wondering is, when it comes to actually pulling in the sales data, you dont need to have a master table for any of those metrics, right? If I want lets say the sales from 2019, I physically pull the data from that 2019 table into the pivot. And likewise, when I want 2020, I do the same. There isnt a way to say "grab the column called 'sales' and figure it out"? Im hoping this makes sense.
or maybe Im just overthinking it and Im correct?
I have two different source documents, which I've brought into this workbook and added to the data model, via power query. It is basically some sales data, one is for 2019, the other for 2020. So, as you can imagine, all 2019 months are populated so far, and all 2020 months have just some February data (we work on the NRF calendar so February is our first month fyi)
I have a master table that is basically a date lookup, although date is present on both of the data tables. Since you cant have many/many, I have a master date table that basically is date/month/week number etc.
Then I draw my relationship from that date master into the two data tables. I also follow this logic with a master store number table.
However what Im wondering is, when it comes to actually pulling in the sales data, you dont need to have a master table for any of those metrics, right? If I want lets say the sales from 2019, I physically pull the data from that 2019 table into the pivot. And likewise, when I want 2020, I do the same. There isnt a way to say "grab the column called 'sales' and figure it out"? Im hoping this makes sense.
or maybe Im just overthinking it and Im correct?
