I am trying to merge with queries together as a new one. My data is being pulled down from BigQuery. When I try to merge I get the following errors. I have tried it with a few different join types with no luck. The most recent was a Full Outer join.
I have tried clearing my cache on PowerBi and that hasn’t worked. I have a unique key in both tables that correspond to each other. Any thoughts? I have done some looking but haven’t found anything helpul.
Failed to save modifications to the server. Error returned: 'OLE DB or ODBC error: [DataSource.Error] ODBC: ERROR [42000] [Microsoft][BigQuery] (70) Invalid query: FULL OUTER JOIN cannot be used without a condition that is an equality of fields from both sides of the join…
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After some digging around, I found the following thread on Reddit of all places, where someone experiencing the same error walks through how they solved it:
There’s useful info throughout the thread, but here’s what I think is the key:
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