Add filter functionality based on column and row values

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We would like to have a filter option for “Retrieve rows from a table” that makes it possible to fetch certain rows instead of every row in the RAW table. The filter should be able to use any column which contains a certain value and return every row containing this value. 

Hi @Sverre Lofthus, thank you for submitting this product idea. 

Would you be able to provide a bit more context and describe your use cases for such a feature? This would help us better understand the need and how it could be addressed.


Hi @Jørgen Lund  

We retrieve data from this API through a function app that has 14 different triggers. Currently, each of these has to fetch everything, before we filter out what we don't need on our end. By adding a filter to extract specific rows based on column values, we will be able to retrieve only what we need. In our case, this would mean going from having to fetch 1 million rows at each run (which we have to do 14 times in total per day) to just between 100,000 to 200,000 rows.


Got it. Just to make sure I understand: there is some overlap between the the data the 14 different triggers need, but also some differences? I.e. it would not be a solution to separate the data into more granular tables?