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How to join a DB search with a lookup.csv?

Sfry1981
Communicator

I have a database search that pulls back a list of ID's for me and I also have a Lookup that has the titles and the IDs that relates to the DB ID's. For example, see the below:

DB table has this ID: 123456
lookup csv has this title and ID: rhubarb and 123456

The DB table has lots of other information in there which is why I need to join them to get more information and I can't find anything similar on Splunk. I have put my test query below but doesn't work so any advice is appreciated

| dbxquery connection="gg" query="SELECT * from idstudio" | rename Id1 as Id2 | join Id1 [search lookup Idslookup.csv]
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tiagofbmm
Influencer

You need to create a lookup definition on that csv lookup. For that follow this: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.2/Knowledge/ConfigureCSVlookups

After you have created a lookup definition, let's say you named it ldslookup,

| dbxquery connection="gg" query="SELECT * from idstudio" 
| lookup Id Idslookup OUTPUT <whatever field you want form the lookup>

tiagofbmm
Influencer

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Sfry1981
Communicator

Thanks for the response. I have done this but when i run the query it does not pull anything through from the lookup and only pulls through the db query. I currently have the below:

| dbxquery connection="gg" query="SELECT * from idtable" | eval ParentId2=substr(ParentId , 1, len(ParentId )-3)
| lookup CommunityTitles2 KBID OUTPUT Title

In your lookup you have the column name prior to the lookup which came back with an error message so i swapped it around. Any idea why it is not pulling anything back from the lookup table?

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