Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, do the following:

  1. Open Power BI Desktop.
  2. Use an Enter Data query to create a table called R09_Table with the following data:

ID

DimKey1

DimKey2

DimKey3

DimKey4

1

blue

red

green

green

2

blue

blue

red

blue

3

blue

red

blue

blue

4

green

green

red

green

5

green

green

blue

green

6

red

red

red

red

7

blue

blue

blue

blue

8

green

green

green

green

9

blue

green

red

green

10

blue

red

green

green

The R09_Table table represents a list of items (ID) with various attributes (DimKey1, DimKey2, DimKey3, DimKey4). In this recipe, we only care about distinct combinations of DimKey1, DimKey2, and DimKey3.