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Anonymous
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Combining Data from two different columns stored in a variable

Consider the following two variables:

VAR A = MembershipHistory[Membership]

VAR B = Memberships[Membership]

Table MembershipHistory and Memberships have some common values in their column Membership and I want their distinct count. How can I join data from both variables so that I could apply distinct count on it. Please help.

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Greg_Deckler
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@Anonymous Try:

RETURN
  COUNTROWS(DISTINCT(UNION(A, B)))


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Greg_Deckler
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@Anonymous Try:

RETURN
  COUNTROWS(DISTINCT(UNION(A, B)))


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Anonymous
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Hi Greg, that works for this problem, but I also have another measure where the variable A is storing 3 columns and variable B is storing 2 columns. The union will not work there as the no of columns are not same. Can you please help with that too?

 

Thanks in advance

Hi, @Anonymous 

Please check if formula below could help:

COUNTROWS (
    DISTINCT ( UNION ( VALUES ( A[Column1] ), VALUES ( B[Column1] ) ) )
)

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Community Support Team _ Eason

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