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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
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
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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 ) )
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
)
)
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 ) )
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
You could run the CALCULATETABLE part of the expression in DAX Studio, see if that gives any indication as to where the discrepancy lies
Sorry, my bad... I wasn't realizing that the DB makes a difference between uppercase and lowercase and PBI doesn't.
So actually the PBI number was correct.
Thank you very much
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