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Append Vs Merge

Append combines two queries by appending rows from each query together and ensuring columns match, while Merge combines queries by matching rows based on joining criteria between queries and can structure columns differently; Fuzzy Merge joins tables not on exact matches but on similarity thresholds.

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Append Vs Merge

Append combines two queries by appending rows from each query together and ensuring columns match, while Merge combines queries by matching rows based on joining criteria between queries and can structure columns differently; Fuzzy Merge joins tables not on exact matches but on similarity thresholds.

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Swamy Danthuri

Append Vs Merge
Combining two queries in Power Query or in Power BI is one of the most basic and also essential tasks that you would
need to do in most of data preparation scenarios. There are two types of combining queries; Merge, and Append.

Append:

Append means results of two (or more) queries (which are tables themselves) will be combined into one query in this
way:

• Rows will be appended after each other. (for example appending a query with 50 rows with another query with 100
rows, will return a result set of 150 rows)
• Columns will be the same number of columns for each query*. (for example, col1, col2,…, col10 in the first query,
after appending with same columns in the second query will result into one query with a single set of col1,col2, …,
col10)
• Append is similar to UNION ALL in T-SQL.
• Append Queries will NOT remove duplicates. You have to use Group By or Remove Duplicate Rows to get rid of
duplicates.
• Append requires columns to be exactly similar to work in the best condition. if columns in source queries are
different, append still works, but will create one column in the output per each new column, if one of the sources
doesn’t have that column the cell value of that column for those rows will be null.
Merge:

Merge is another type of combining queries which are based on matching rows, rather than columns. The output of
Merge will be a single query with;

• There should be joining or matching criteria between two queries. (for example StudentID column of both queries to
be matched with each other)
• Number of rows will be dependent on matching criteria between queries
• Number of Columns will be dependent on what columns selected in the result set. (Merge will create a structured
column as a result).
• There are 6 types of joins supported in Power BI
Merge (Fuzzy Join):

Fuzzy Merge is a way of joining two tables together, but not on exact matching criteria, but on the similarity threshold.
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