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Composite Key support in Power BI

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Srinivasan Turuvekere on 22 Oct 2015 21:59:36

Provide support for composite keys natively as a modeling feature. This would be useful to create relationships between tables that join on multiple columns without having to create a surrogate key by concatenating fields

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Lasse Matthias on 22 Feb 2023 22:17:20

RE: Composite Key support in Power BI

This is a feature supported in many other BI tools. It's crazy that it's still not possible in Power BI.

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Fábio Costa on 21 Nov 2022 16:06:37

RE: Composite Key support in Power BI

This is really important. Please implement

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Peter Görtz on 18 Aug 2022 08:03:07

RE: Composite Key support in Power BI

Really, tremendously important in Semantik modelling

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Jeff Fox on 22 Sep 2021 13:29:42

RE: Composite Key support in Power BI

I can't believe something so basic is still in a "Needs Votes" status. This is CRITICAL

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 06 Jul 2020 00:13:52

RE: Composite Key support in Power BI

In a DirectQuery model the concatenation strategy slows down performance tremendously because you're joining on string instead of integers. Please add this. thank you.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:47:56

RE: Composite Key support in Power BI

Yes, Support it. It must be present in Manage Relationship tab.

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sharukh on 05 Jul 2020 23:19:25

RE: Composite Key support in Power BI

Its lame MS doesnot add such useful features in the tool. Not wonder why Tableau is still everyones favourite bi tool

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:41:05

RE: Composite Key support in Power BI

Very valuable! Also vote on similar ideas: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/9196284-use-composite-joins-in-manage-relationships-setup
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https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/10849149-add-the-ability-for-multiple-relationships-between

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jerome P on 05 Jul 2020 22:35:00

RE: Composite Key support in Power BI

yes, this is very important, specialy in directquery mode. I can understand how the in memory mode works, but in directquery, having more than 1 column in a join is a must have.
currently this limitation breaks the usage of my indexes and cause performance issues.

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Andrew _ on 05 Jul 2020 22:32:56

RE: Composite Key support in Power BI

This would be very handy. I'd like to avoid creating unnecessary concatenated fields and reduce the model size.