Hi All,
I'm very new to Alteryx, but I'm loving it so far. :)
My issue is that I'm outputting my data into multiple Access databases based on Customer Name which each have multiple tables within them (each customer is located in a folder based on Customer Name). However there are times when some of the tables when I run the workflow will not have any data to output. However if I ran the workflow previously there will be a table in the database with database from the previous month.
I have Excel reports that link to these tables that I refresh monthly. So if there is a table from the previous month in the DB it will refresh in my report even though there isn't any data for the current month, if that makes sense. So I want all tables to either be dropped or all the data to be deleted in each DB before the data is output to the tables. That way I know that each table contains new data for the month and not what was left there from the previous month. Otherwise i have to open each DB and delete the old tables so that my reports will not pick up that data.
So here's the path the DB is going to based on Customer Name and Stats is the name of each table.
And this is a sample of the tables written to the Discrepancies DB:
Every month it's possible that there will not be data for each of these tables so I want to delete all of them first before the new tables are created. Is this possible?
Thanks in advance for any assistance!
Daniela
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A simple trick is to write an empty dataset back to the same table, which can be done inline:
See also: @patrick_mcauliffe's more in-depth treatment here.
Thank you! I haven't had a chance to try it yet but I appreciate your response!