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 How to bring two columns from older monthly files into the current table.

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Vishu Arora's profile image
Vishu Arora posted Wed August 27, 2025 08:45 AM

Is there a way to bring two columns from older monthly files into the current table.

Every month I receive an actuals file. If there is a matching identifier exists in the current table, it should retrieve the corresponding column values from the previous month's files.

Thank you for any assistance

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Jon Sober  Best Answer

I don't much like this approach but in one case we've created 12 separate input tables, one for each month, and then append them all into a central table. That gives you a lot of flexibility for building an identifier for each row including the date, looking up against the previous period's identifier, etc. and you'd then also want to filter to only keep the current month's row. This can bring problems with making sure you load the data in the right place each time, but that's one for your run book.

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Jason Tucker

The only thought that comes to mind is transforming the source into another table with the needed columns for a lookup and you can lookup against it, but that would create a circular reference. Maybe you can do a monthly API to another table to avoid the circular reference.

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Fred Salatino

This is going to be a tough one to solve in the transform layer.

What's the root problem? What situation is leading to the actuals missing any information in the current month?

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Julie Whitehurst

Maybe you can use a datalink egress connector to push the desired data out to your server and then use an ingress connector to append the data into a “yearly” table that could be used as a lookup. Just a thought.