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join two excel spreadsheet then using outer join to update/replace reference spreadsheet

ashamluo
7 - Meteor

Hello Alteryx Community,

 

I have been searching on the community for this topic, but could not find any. Not sure if this is possible to do, I would really appreciate if you could help.

 

I have two spreadsheet (#1 and #2) and i joined them together, if there is new data then I would get rows in my right/outer join (which is the data that I am concern of).

 

Then I have a spreadsheet call reference,

what I want to do is to look at the rows from reference spreadsheet and replace entire row that matches two records (country and holiday) from the result of the joined spreadsheet. 

 

#1

countryholidaydatedayschoolbank
Argentinanew year01-01-2022Saturdaycloseclose
ArgentinaPublic Sector Holiday01-13-2022Thursdayopenopen
ArgentinaPublic Sector Holiday01-14-2022Fridayopenopen

 

#2

countryholidaydatedayschoolbank
Argentinanew year01-01-2022Saturdaycloseclose
ArgentinaPublic Sector Holiday01-13-2022Thursdayopenopen
ArgentinaPublic Sector Holiday01-14-2022Fridayopenopen
Brazillabor day05-01-2022Sundaycloseclose

 

Outer Join of #1 and #2

countryholidaydatedayschoolbank
Brazillabor day05-01-2022Sundaycloseclose

 

Reference

countryholidaydatedayschoolbank
Argentinanew year01-01-2022Saturdaycloseclose
ArgentinaPublic Sector Holiday01-13-2022Thursdayopenopen
ArgentinaPublic Sector Holiday01-14-2022Fridayopenopen
Brazilnew year01-01-2022Saturdaycloseclose
Brazillabor day05-01-2021Mondayopenopen
ColombiaEpiphany01-06-2022Thursdaycloseclose

 

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Outcome that I want (entire brazil/labor day being updated from this reference table)

countryholidaydatedayschoolbank
Argentinanew year01-01-2022Saturdaycloseclose
ArgentinaPublic Sector Holiday01-13-2022Thursdayopenopen
ArgentinaPublic Sector Holiday01-14-2022Fridayopenopen
Brazilnew year01-01-2022Saturdaycloseclose
Brazillabor day05-01-2022Sundaycloseclose
ColombiaEpiphany01-06-2022Thursdaycloseclose

 

Thank you so much!

2 REPLIES 2
Qiu
21 - Polaris
21 - Polaris

@ashamluo 
I think it is basically Join and Union as below

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ashamluo
7 - Meteor

Oh my goodness! I don't know this just did not come to my mind! thank you!

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