Hi,
So I have a table of about 25 columns, 35K rows of data.
I want to take two of those columns, append the data to make once column of about 70K of data. Then, remove duplicates.
Would this need to be a new table? If I create a calculated column, I'm going to end up with 70K rows of data, where 35K of them have null value in the other 24 columns columns. Unless there is a programmable way to just do a distinct count of all those rows of data. The possibility of the data that I'm trying to manage is about 50K different possibilities, so I can't just search for a key word or anything.
If I did it in excel I would do exactly that - copy / paste all the data from one column onto the bottom of the other column, then click remove duplicates.
I've searched, but the other options/questions I've found are people trying to do distinct count where they can concatenate the columns of data into a new column with the same # of rows as the original table. This is different.