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Join with different fields names.

brodde
Engager

Hi,

I'm trying to port some SQL queries we wrote to Splunk but whereas with SQL I can specify which columns to join whatever their names are I couldn't replicate that in Splunk.

Here's an attempt using aliases (rename didnt work either) :

   sourcetype="call"
    | join type=left callerID as userId
       [search sourcetype="user"
       | fields userId]
    | table event_id callerID userId

Thanks !

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Rename certainly works.

If you have two sources like this:

user, field1
foo, value2

and like this:

userId, field2
foo, value2

you can do a search like this:

sourcetype=st1 | rename user as userId | join userId [search sourcetype=st2]

to get this:

userId, field1, field2
foo, value1, value2
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