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Enan
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3 years ago
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Difference Between Calculate & Filter

Hi Experts,   Need your guidance to understand the behaviour of Filter & Calculate. I have used below DAX measures to calcualte total Transactions based where quantity =6 and for Jan97. However ...
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    MarkLaf
    3 years ago

    Refer to this sqlbi article: https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/filter-arguments-in-calculate/

    To directly try to answer your question, filters statements in CALCULATE that don't explicitly use FILTER are implicitly using FILTER( ALL( Table[Column] ), <condition> ). I.e. your 'using Calculate' version is equivalent to:

     

    = CALCULATE(
    COUNTROWS( Transactions_Data_Fact ),
    FILTER( ALL( Transactions_Data_Fact[quantity] ), Transactions_Data_Fact[quantity] = 6 ),
    FILTER( ALL( Transactions_Data_Fact[year] ), Transactions_Data_Fact[year] = 1997 ),
    FILTER( ALL( Transactions_Data_Fact[Month] ), Transactions_Data_Fact[Month] = 1 )
)

     

     

     

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MarkLaf
Super User
3 years ago

Refer to this sqlbi article: https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/filter-arguments-in-calculate/

To directly try to answer your question, filters statements in CALCULATE that don't explicitly use FILTER are implicitly using FILTER( ALL( Table[Column] ), <condition> ). I.e. your 'using Calculate' version is equivalent to:

 

= CALCULATE(
    COUNTROWS( Transactions_Data_Fact ),
    FILTER( ALL( Transactions_Data_Fact[quantity] ), Transactions_Data_Fact[quantity] = 6 ),
    FILTER( ALL( Transactions_Data_Fact[year] ), Transactions_Data_Fact[year] = 1997 ),
    FILTER( ALL( Transactions_Data_Fact[Month] ), Transactions_Data_Fact[Month] = 1 )
)