> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://parabola.io/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Combining data

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In this lesson, you'll learn the three methods for combining data in Parabola — joining on shared IDs, stacking tables, and comparing tables to find overlap.

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<Card icon="sparkles" title="Building challenge">
  Now that your sales data is clean, bring in the product category information so you can break Total Sales down by category.

  <Steps>
    <Step title="Copy and paste this prompt into Parabola to combine your data sets">
      ```text wrap theme={null}
      Join my sales data with my product categories on "SKU".
      ```
    </Step>

    <Step title="Rearrange the combined step so it sits to the right of your two pull data cards">
      The join step should live outside of any card, connected directly to the outputs of both pull steps.
    </Step>
  </Steps>
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  <Note>The steps added to your canvas and their exact documentation may differ from what you see below — every AI response is unique. The important thing is that your resulting data set matches what you see here.</Note>

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