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Roy-Wanyoike
Qrew Captain
1 month ago

Data normalization

What’s the best way to normalize data in Quickbase without overcomplicating the app?

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  • Of course it depends what your data looks like. Presumably you need to normalize the data because you're getting a prescribed data feed from an outside system.

     

    Of course it depends what your data looks like. Presumably you need to normalize the data because you're getting a prescribed data feed from an outside system.

    But for example, if you had sales coming in on a single record as the records had columns or fields for the 12 months, all in one record that my suggestion is to bring the raw data into a temporary staging table. Then use saved table to table imports to copy those records 12 times into your normalized table, one month at a time. There is very easy syntax to have a pipeline run the same table to Table import, one month at a time. There is very easy syntax to havpipeline run the same table to Table import.

    If you give us a better idea of what your non-normalized data look like I can give you more ideas.