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Anonymous
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Calculate the number of duplicate values in two columns

I am having issues creating a measure that counts the number of duplicate values in two columns. My initial idea was to create two calculated columns and then join them on the duplicate values. I then could count the number of rows and determine how many there were. However, my measure is not returning a possible value.

 

Here is an example of what I'm trying to do:

 

Column 1:     Column 2: 

1                    1

2                    6

3                    7

4                    3

5                    9

 

The measure I need would return 2 since there are two duplicate values (1 and 3) in these two columns.

 

Any assistance on creating such a measure would be helpful.

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OwenAuger
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Hi @Anonymous 

 

Something like this should do what you want:

Common Value Count = 
COUNTROWS ( 
    INTERSECT (
        VALUES ( YourTable[Column 1] ),
        VALUES ( YourTable[Column 2] )
    )
)

VALUES would include blank values that are generated if either of these columns is on the 1-side of a strong relationship that happens to be invalid. To exclude these use DISTINCT instead.

 

Regards,

Owen 


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OwenAuger
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Hi @Anonymous 

 

Something like this should do what you want:

Common Value Count = 
COUNTROWS ( 
    INTERSECT (
        VALUES ( YourTable[Column 1] ),
        VALUES ( YourTable[Column 2] )
    )
)

VALUES would include blank values that are generated if either of these columns is on the 1-side of a strong relationship that happens to be invalid. To exclude these use DISTINCT instead.

 

Regards,

Owen 


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Anonymous
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Thanks for the post! The measure worked perfectly as intended. I only modified the measure by adding a filter. I forgot to mention this need in my original post. You can see the final measure I ended up using in the post below.

 

Common Value Count With Filter = COUNTROWS(
    INTERSECT(
        CALCULATETABLE(VALUES(YourTable[Column 1]), FILTER(YourTable, YourTable[Column 1] = "itemOne")), 
        CALCULATETABLE(VALUES(YourTable[Column 2]), FILTER(YourTable, YourTable[Column 2] = "itemTwo"))
    )
)

 

Thanks again!

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