How to join two tables with identical column names

We would like to join tables. Right now we are using:

table = table.joinOn( joinByColumns ).leftOuter( additionalTable  );

Challenges:

• additionalTable has columns that exist already in table.
• additionalTable may have missing rows.

We would like to have it such that values in additionalTable should replace the values in table in columns with duplicate names.

Is there an implementation for this?

[lwhite1]

there is a replace method

On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 12:14 PM Christian Tischer @.***> wrote:

I don’t understand why you want to “keep” the right side columns but replace them with the values from the left side.

We need it want it the other way around: replace the columns on the left with the columns on the right.

If it were me I would try to write something that found all the duplicate names and did a column replace

That sounds good! Is there something to directly replace a column, or would I need to do a column removal followed by an addition?

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[tischi]

Thanks a lot for your help!