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Hello All,
I have a task here to match a price index database for both an initial reference date and the current date.
| Case | Purchase Date | FSA | Property Type | INDICE_RETRO | INDICE_CURRENT |
| Property 1 | 2000-05-06 | L0V | Condo | 68.961 | 287.4672 |
| Property 2 | 2021-07-14 | L0V | Single | 276.2761 | 288.4672 |
I got the solution from another post in the community and it does seem to get the correct answer. (this post: Solved: Re: Approximate match - Alteryx Community)
However I have well over 650,000 historical data point to refer, some by quarter some by month. Just by testing a few thousands of records to match, it took well over 3 hours to run the workflow (and I only matched the retro value not the current value yet).
I'm wondering if anyone would know a better way to do this "Approximate match" function in Alteryx? -- basicaly the workflow would produce x items * 650,000 historical data THEN to do calculation, sorting and to select the right 1 single record that is a match. I am still scratching my head and wonder why Alteryx didn't come up with something easier like excel's vlookup and xlookup and having to take such a detour?
The similar use case can apply to something like pricing match in a pricing table, to match a price for a product to the right or effetive pricing policy so I'm sure it's extremely helpful. -- if someone know how to submit a recommendation to Atleryx it's appreciated too!
Thanks everyone!
You can use Join Tool to get output quickly. Let me know if this helps!
