In last week’s blog, I wrote and did a video about how to remove duplicate records and keep the most recent entry as long as a date column was part of the data source. I came across the scenario while giving training on Power BI with my company Pragmatic Works. See the video below: This week, while doing another two-day training I came across a different scenario from a follow-up conversation from day 1. I had explained how to remove duplicate records and one of the students started working on a Power BI project she has for her company. On day 2 the student informed me that her remove duplicates step was not working. I said that is odd and I asked to see the data. In one of her table visuals, I could see that it appeared that a few of the records had duplicates based on the name column. After further investigation though, we figured out the culprit. She had done all the steps correctly, but it was a...
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