Copy lookup tables in PowerPivot

paivers

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I need to take my date dimension lookup, and clone it 8 times to make specific tables for each date. Is there a way to clone an existing table in PowerPivot?
 

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What is the source of your date dimension? An Excel table? A SQL table? An Access table?

Its a SQL table. Same source for each date dimension, but want to duplicate for difference slicers and not have to re-enter all code on them. Its the equivalent of the Excel copy tab we are looking for.
 
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You can use the Existing Connections button to easily connect back to the same SQL table multiple times.

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Right, I know that, that's how you manually start from the beginning. We are trying to avoid having to customize names, add calculated columns and measures, and adding date hierarchies all over again. We are looking for a table copy, including customizations.
 
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Ah, got it. What about piping Power Query into Power Pivot? Then you could use the Duplicate button.

Or, even better, use the first query as the source for a second, third, fourth, etc. query which should allow you to change the first query and have it automatically affect the other queries.

You can customize names and add calculated columns with Power Query, but you can't do measures. But measures aren't table-specific in Power Pivot anyways though so that shouldn't matter.

This might be a silly question, but are you sure you even need to duplicate the Date table? Many times you can get away with connecting all your other tables to just one date table.
 
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It is actually one data table, with multiple dimensions. So we change the base view, that changes all. Its creating the multiple hierarchies that slows it down, but no mind we went ahead and did it as there doesn't appear to be a copy function.
 
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