Question 120
A team uses Merge to add same-schema monthly sales and gets many null columns instead of stacked records. What should change?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Replace that merge with Append Queries for same-schema row concatenation. Merge joins across keys; append adds vertical records.
Incorrect Answers
Append unions rows and aligns columns by name. It serves “and the analyst wants one longer transaction table”, not “gets many null columns instead of stacked records”.
Power Query aligns appended columns by name and fills missing cells with null. That matters for “different column sets, with one optional SourceChannel column” rather than the condition “gets many null columns instead of stacked records”.
Deduplicate or remodel the customer lookup before expanding the merge. The boundary it addresses is “and a fact merge unexpectedly doubles some rows”, while this case concerns “gets many null columns instead of stacked records”.