Power Query is Missing Some Values on Import, Causing IDs to Map to the Wrong Records
Hi. I have a Power Query / Excel issue that I just cannot find a solution to, or a similar problem online. I have a third party cloud based database which I am querying into Excel via an OData connection. The source database contains some duplicate names. As this is real company data, I've created a little demo (screenshot below) to explain the problem. So say I had two companies called Bob's Buns in my original data set. Power Query does not pull the second instance of the name "Bob's Buns", which causes all the names below to line up with the wrong IDs. So now "12" is linked to "Clare's Cakes". You'd think I could just make sure that no two companies in my database have exactly the same name and this would fix the issue, but it doesn't. When I pull the data again after fixing the duplicates, it STILL results in this misalignment error. In fact if I renamed Bob's Buns (ID 11) to "Bob's Buns Bristol", and Bob's Buns (12) to "Bob's Buns Birmingham", Power Query still returns exactly the same result you can see under "What Power Query Returns" below. It's definitely the duplication causing the error, as there were a few instances of this within the database, and the same thing happened. I have done a static export to Excel from the source database, and the results line up correctly with their IDs. However, when I used OData & Power Query, I get this infuriating error. I hope I have explained myself OK! Help very much appreciated!
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