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Join Output

Dittau
8 - Asteroid

Hello.

 

I have 2 paths that i joined based on a concatenated column…how do i run a match in the join tool and have it produce an email output of non matching items from one of the 2 files.

 

1 of the files is like a data warehouse and the orher file changes daily and is small and i need to validate the small file against the warehouse fike to see what is and isn’t included.

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Yoshiro_Fujimori
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

@Dittau ,

I suppose this is what you want to do.

 

DWH has numbers from 1-30.

Daily data has numbers of 10, 20, ... 50.

 

You can use Join tool to tell if the key matches or not.

Matched records go to J output, and unmatched records go to R output.

You can add the result by Formula tool and then Union the record.

 

I hope this matches with your case.

 

Workflow

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Output

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Dittau
8 - Asteroid

Very helpful! 

what determines where the matches go and where the unmatched go in the output from the join tool..the join tool has 3 outputs so what dictates each letter…etc

Yoshiro_Fujimori
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

The meaning of each output is:

L: Left

J: Join

R: Right

 

This interactive lesson and Tool Mastery article may help.

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Interactive-Lessons/Joining-Data/ta-p/76634

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Knowledge-Base/Tool-Mastery-Join/ta-p/29814

 

 

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