Retrieve a value using multiple criteria and a range lookup in PowerBI

IR15H

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Hi,

I am after some assistance from anyone who's able to please as I've been searching for hours and still can't find a tutorial/solution I can successfully modify for what frustratingly feels like it must have a relatively simple solution.

In essence, I have two tables in PowerBI that I would like to merge/lookup in a performance-efficient manner. The current methodology I've used (due to lack of knowledge) expands one table to remove the range and instead have millions of unique rows, which then unsurprisingly becomes very slow.

An example below of my two tables is as below.

Table_1
DESIRED_VALUEVARIABLE_1VARIABLE_2START_OF_RANGEEND_OF_RANGE
ATEXT_1100050000
BTEXT_220005001500


Table_2
VARIABLE_1VARIABLE_2NUMBERDESIRED_VALUE
TEXT_11005??? (in this example "A")
TEXT_22000100??? (in this example "B")

Essentially, the task I would like to complete is....

Get the relevant Table_1 DESIRED_VALUE and enter it into Table_2 where the following conditions are true;
Table_1.VARIABLE_1 = Table_2.VARIABLE_1 and Table_1.VARIABLE_2 = Table_2.VARIABLE_2 and Table_1.START_OF_RANGE <= Table_2.NUMBER and Table_1.END_OF_RANGE >= Table_2.NUMBER

Due the the nature of the data I have, there will only ever be one DESIRED_VALUE result for the above conditions and it will always 'find' a result.

Thanks in advance.
 

Excel Facts

Format cells as time
Select range and press Ctrl+Shift+2 to format cells as time. (Shift 2 is the @ sign).
You need to use a banding approach. I wrote an article about it here
You need to write a new calculated column in Table 2 by lifting the data in table 2 and placing these data as a filter on table 1, then extracting the result back into the new calculated column. It’s all covered in the article.
 
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Solution
Matt,

Thanks for your help / article.

For the benefit of other potentially looking to do something similar in future, I think I've got it working by creating the below calculated column in DAX;

Column = CALCULATE(
VALUES(Table.1[DESIRED_VALUE]),
FILTER(Table.1,
Table.2[VARIABLE_1] = Table.1[VARIABLE_1] &&
Table.2[VARIABLE_2] = Table.1[VARIABLE_2] &&
Table.2[NUMBER] > Table.1[START_OF_RANGE] &&
Table.2[NUMBER] <= Table.1[END_OF_RANGE]))
 
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