Merge Queries. Keep rows if the same, add if there are new ones.

RogerPenna

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Hi everybody.

So, we have these tables with
-Contract Numbers
-Date
-Service Description
-Quantities

We have this legacy table that has 16 thousand rows, for 3 years of contracts, with several services per month per contract.


We need to keep this Legacy Table data, but we want add data from files that will be put in a folder... each file corresponding to the services of a single month of a single contract (yes, it's stupid, but that's because how the Export from a legacy program we have work)

So, the inclusion of files in a folder, and them becoming a single table already works. I made several transforms, so PowerQuery gets the date and contract number from the header of the files and create columns for them, etc.

And then I have this other table with 16 thousand rows with legacy data.

I want to create a merge where I will have the old legacy data AND the new data being inserted montly in the folder.

But no merge I try gives me the wanted result, which is to get the LEGACY DATA table, ADD new ROWS (not columns) if they don´t exist, and UPDATE VALUES of old rows, if they have changed.
 

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