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CROSS MERGE

Category: Transform / Advanced


Description

This action creates a table with all possible combinations (i.e. Cartesian product) of rows in two tables.


Use cases

Cross Merge can be helpful in a number of cases:


Action settings

SettingDescription
Merge tableSelect the table to merge with the current dataset.
ColumnsSelect whether to merge all columns in the second dataset, or just selected columns. Options: All columns or
Selected columns (choose which columns to include in the merge).

The reference to the second table will appear as a dotted line connecting this action to the second dataset in the application window.


Remarks

This action can produce extremely large tables, so make sure that you’re not cross-merging large tables. To estimate the number of rows in the resulting table, multiply the number of rows in both source datasets.

EasyMorph can handle tables with up to 536 million records only.


Examples

Example: Create a custom calendar with quarters in years 2016-2017.

Table: Years

Year
2016
2017

Table: Quarters

Quarter
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4


Action parameters:

Merge table: "Quarters"
All columns

(The resulting dataset will contain 8 rows. Table "Years" 2 rows x Table "Quarters" 4 rows.)


Result table:

Year Quarter
2016Q1
2016Q2
2016Q3
2016Q4
2017Q1
2017Q2
2017Q3
2017Q4


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