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RK9009
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Distinct Count [NOT IN]

Hi Community I need help with dax 

 

I have a table with IDs and Category:

 

IDCategory
1A
2B
3C
4D
5A
5B
5C
6A
6C
7B
7C
8A
8B
8D
8E
9A

 

  • Distinct count of the IDs is 9 
  • Distinct count of IDs in Cat. A is 5

Now, when we count the distinct IDs in Category B, we need to exclude the IDs which were counted in A (i.e Distinct count of IDs in Catergory B should have a result of 3 and not 4 because the ID 8 is already counted in Cat. A once)

 

Please HELPP. 

 

 

 

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amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@RK9009 , Using distinct at the final stage should work better, if the solution works

 

countrows(distinct(except(selectcolumns(filter(Table,Table[Category] ="B"), "ID", Table[ID]),selectcolumns(filter(Table,Table[Category] ="A"), "ID", Table[ID]))))

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@amitchandak ,tried this one seem like its working in terms of count but the ID counted in A are still showing up in B. 

Thank you for your response 

 

@RK9009 - I mocked this up in PBIX, Page 11. I missed a couple ALL statements.

 

Count in B Measure = 
  VAR __As = DISTINCT(SELECTCOLUMNS(FILTER(ALL('Table (13)'),[Category]="A"),"ID",[ID]))
  VAR __Bs = DISTINCT(SELECTCOLUMNS(FILTER(ALL('Table (13)'),[Category]="B"),"ID",[ID]))
RETURN
  IF(MAX([Category])="B",COUNTROWS(DISTINCT(EXCEPT(__Bs,__As))),BLANK())

 

Fixes the showing up in A problem. PBIX below sig. The answer is actually 2, not 3 because 5 and 8 are both in A according to your test data.



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count in B Measure =
VAR __As = DISTINCT(SELECTCOLUMNS(FILTER('Table',[category]="A"),"ID",[ID]))
VAR __Bs = DISTINCT(SELECTCOLUMNS(FILTER('Table',[category]="B"),"ID",[ID]))
RETURN
COUNTROWS(DISTINCT(EXCEPT(__Bs,__As)))
 
Thanks

@sqlguru448 ,  no luck buddy

 

Greg_Deckler
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Super User

@RK9009 Try:

Count in B Measure =
  VAR __As = DISTINCT(SELECTCOLUMNS(FILTER('Table',[Category]="A"),"ID",[ID]))
  VAR __Bs = DISTINCT(SELECTCOLUMNS(FILTER('Table',[Category]="A"),"ID",[ID]))
RETURN
  COUNTROWS(DISTINCT(EXCEPT(__Bs,As)))


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@Greg_Deckler , Thank you for the response, I tried this measure but no luck 

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