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fabiomanniti
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4 years ago
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Count rows from a group by table with filter

I hope you can help me:

I have two tables: a dimension and a fact table for users.

I would like to find how many users have registered twice based on the VAT number.

So I want to do a group by VAT number, filter rows that have a count(distinct id)>1 and then count how many rows do I have.

Furthermore there is one more filter I should consider: since it is a dimension table, I must take only the last snap.

So

  1. Get last snap from fact_users (is_last_snap = true)
  2. Get rows with duplicates (count(distinct id)>1)
  3. Count how many rows do I have

So, my output is supposed to be a simple number.

I know how to do a GROUP BY table with DAX but I don't know how to put filter in it.

GroupedByCF = 
GROUPBY(
dim_users,
dim_users[VAT],
"RowCount",
COUNTX(
CURRENTGROUP(),
dim_users[id]
)
)

This could potentially work (I can also put filter "RowCount>1" into the next measure but I don't know how to put the last snap (since it comes from another table). 

So my Idea was to create a table like this and then to create a measure to count rows.

 

If it was a SQL I would do something like this

WITH CTE AS (
SELECT d.vat as vat,
count(distinct d.id) as counting
FROM fact.users f
LEFT JOIN dim.users d ON f.id_tk = d._tk
WHERE 1 = 1
AND f.d_date_tk = get_last_msnap_date()
GROUP BY d.vat
HAVING count(distinct d.id) > 1
)
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM CTE

 

 

 

 

  • You could try

    Num duplicate customers =
    VAR summaryTable =
        CALCULATETABLE (
            ADDCOLUMNS (
                SUMMARIZE ( dim_users, dim_users[VAT] ),
                "@num rows", CALCULATE ( COUNTROWS ( dim_users ) )
            ),
            dim_users[is_last_snap] = TRUE ()
        )
    RETURN
        COUNTROWS ( FILTER ( summaryTable, [@num rows] > 1 ) )

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  • You could try

    Num duplicate customers =
    VAR summaryTable =
        CALCULATETABLE (
            ADDCOLUMNS (
                SUMMARIZE ( dim_users, dim_users[VAT] ),
                "@num rows", CALCULATE ( COUNTROWS ( dim_users ) )
            ),
            dim_users[is_last_snap] = TRUE ()
        )
    RETURN
        COUNTROWS ( FILTER ( summaryTable, [@num rows] > 1 ) )
    • fabiomanniti's avatar
      fabiomanniti
      Icon for Helper III rankHelper III

      This almost works...

      I don't know why I expect 86 results from the DB and I see 105 on PBI but I'm not sure it is a problem of the DAX Formula

      • johnt75's avatar
        johnt75
        Icon for Super User rankSuper User

        You could run the CALCULATETABLE part of the expression in DAX Studio, see if that gives any indication as to where the discrepancy lies

  • tamerj1's avatar
    tamerj1
    Icon for Community Champion rankCommunity Champion

    Hi fabiomanniti 
    Please try

    GroupedByCF =
    COUNTROWS (
        FILTER (
            GROUPBY (
                FILTER ( dim_users, dim_users[is_last_snap] = TRUE () ),
                dim_users[VAT],
                "RowCount", COUNTX ( CURRENTGROUP (), dim_users[id] )
            ),
            [RowCount] > 1
        )
    )