Say I have a table of 20K records and want to sort by colum A and C. There are 20 records with identical A and C entries, how does excel decide how to order these 20 records? Does it order by the value in the next available column not already defined in the sort? Some magic sum of not null fields in that row? I am at a loss and can't find the answer anywhere, any clarification would really help as I don't think defining a sort by every available column is an efficient way to solve this problem.
Excel SORT preserves the existing order of duplicate records.
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Looking to use VBA to compare two tables, with three columns each against each other. Beginner here and very lost.
They may have a different amount of entries each, and there may be some in table A that aren't in table B, and vice versa
Some of the individual Columns may match but trying to work out how to make sure all three columns are compared as one against all three columns in the other table
For example
xyz123 55.50 12/07/21 if compared with XYZ123 54.55 12/07/21 will show up as not a match, because the middle column is a different number.
Have attached a picture below. For the most part, and unlike the photo, each table will be in a completely random order, and its unlikely that there will be the same entry in table 1, row 1, as table 2 row 1
Ideally, I'm trying to create two new table to the right of the original tables, the first one being the entries table 1 has, that table 2 does not have. The second one being the entries table 2 has, that table 1 does not have.
Have attached an example below of the end result I'm looking for out of this. The four rows on the left are entries that the first table has but the second table doesn't, and the rows to the right are all entries that the second table has, but the first table does not.
I've tried to search on this but haven't found something that matches what I've got, and I'm struggling to adapt someone else's code to my specific problem
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated
Maybe not a direct answer to your problem but is this data also in a database somewhere or are you familiar with Ms Access? As you could open the tables in Access, and it is pretty easy to do this kind of thing with data bases.
If not, then yes, it is do able with VBA. Numerous ways of doing it.
The simplest is to scroll through one table a line at a time and compare it with every row in the other table and match or not. This will work with small tables and be easy and quick but for large data tables it would be wasteful and may take a long time to complete.
Is there a way to add values in Excel based off of values previously in table?
For example, in the table I currently have, is there a way to exclude adding the 1 from the "Attended" column in the "Sonics and Cold Cash" row because I already had a row with "Sonics" and "1" in attended? I don't want to add a 1 to the SUMIF function if I have already attended that team once before.
I hope this is clear enough for some help. Thank you!
edit: So far, I have a table that tracks how many times a team has been "attended". This works, however I am trying to use linear optimization for scheduling, and using the results table has some linearity problems. I'm trying to find a way to only use the table instead of a second, results table.
I have 2 big tables (1 has 690K Rows, 2nd one has 890K rows).
They have the same format and columns:
Username - Points - Bonuses - COLUMN D... COLUMN - K.
Lets say in the first table i have the "Original" usernames and in the 2nd table i have "New" usernames + Some of the "Original" usernames (So people who are still playing + people who are new to the game).
What I'm trying to do is to merge them so i can have in a single table (sum up) their values.
I've already made my tables proper System Tables.
I created their connection in the workbook.
I've tried to merge them but i keep getting less rows than i expect to have, so some records are being left out or not being summed.
I've tried Left Outer, Right Outer, Full Outer with no success.
This is where im standing:
As #Jenn said, i had to append the tables instead of merging them and i also used a filter inside PowerQuery to remove all blanks/zeros before loading it into Excel, i was left with 500K Unique rows, instead of 1.6 Million. Thanks for the comment!
I would append the tables, as indicated above. First load each table separately into PowerQuery, and then append one table into the other one. The column names look a little long and it may make sense to simplify the column names so that the system doesn't read them as different columns due to an inadvertent typo.
I have imported a bunch of data using PowerQuery into a single table and am building dashboard reporting. I have been using Pivot Tables to build my reports, which has worked fine so far.
However, I've come to a point though where I want to simply show the count of multiple columns (calculated fields). So I have column A,B,C,D, and want to show the count each of each. But, I don't want them to be subsets (or children) of one another, and I don't want to build a bunch of Pivot Tables (file is already getting pretty big, and I want them row by row for easy viewing). Any suggestions?
Also, I am using the "Columns" field already to show the counts by certain weeks (week one, week two, etc.).
Thanks,
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Thanks for the follow-up. Within PowerPivot, I have four calculated fields/columns that are True/False for each column. I want to know how many times each of those columns were marked "True" (I can rename the "True" field to distinguish between which field it's referencing). But I don't want four pivot tables. Right now I can only think of making four pivot tables, filtering out the false for each one, then hiding the rows so the "True" values stack on top of one another. If I put all the four fields together in the same Pivot, the three below the first become subsets. I don't want subsets, just occurrence counts.
Does this help provide clarification?
If I understand you correctly, here's an example that shows what you're trying to achieve:
The table on the left has the TRUE/FALSE entries and the PivotTable on the right just shows the number of true items in each of those columns.
The format of the DAX measure to produce these count totals is:
[Count of A]=CALCULATE(COUNTROWS(PetFacts),PetFacts[A]=TRUE)
(Apologies to any parrot owners who may get upset that I have inadvertently re-classified their pets as cold-blooded!)
I have a list of numbers, ranging from 100000 to 101000 and i need to find which ones are not in order, is there anyway to do this ? As i dont want to go through a list of 1000 numbers
PS. I am taking this data from SQL So in this instance i cannot sort the data. I just need to know which are not in correct order
If your numbers start in A1 then:
=IF(SMALL(A:A,ROW())=A1,"")
in Row1 and copied down should indicate those that are out of order.
If it is just the number in the SQL entry you can sort it directly when writing the query using ORDER BY in your SQL statement