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Issue with relating tables in PowerPivot
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I am fairly new to PowerPivot in Excel and I was wondering about how you could use two tables of unrelated data in a pivot table. I understand about how you can relate two tables like Customer and CustomerOrder that share a common key, but what about something like this:
Claims Table:
Claim Number
Claim Type
Year of Loss
State
County
Zip Code
Population Table:
Population Count
Year of Census
State
County
Zip Code
There isn't a true key that connects these Tables but they have many fields in common. So if I was to list Florida Hurricane claims by loss year in a Pivot table is there any way to also list the Population for Florida for the same years? Is there a solution that would automatically switch if I changed from State = Florida to County = DUVAL? Could this be done with a DAX expression?
Claims Table:
Claim Number
Claim Type
Year of Loss
State
County
Zip Code
Population Table:
Population Count
Year of Census
State
County
Zip Code
There isn't a true key that connects these Tables but they have many fields in common. So if I was to list Florida Hurricane claims by loss year in a Pivot table is there any way to also list the Population for Florida for the same years? Is there a solution that would automatically switch if I changed from State = Florida to County = DUVAL? Could this be done with a DAX expression?
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