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Anonymous
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How to count the number of non-duplicate values in a 1-column table?

I want to count the number of unique values in a column (excluding duplicates and values of duplicates). Here is a sample 1-column table:

 

ID

A

A
A
B
C
D
D
E

 

My ideal output is 3 (it includes 'B', 'C', 'E'). 'A' and 'D' are ignored since they have duplicates in the column.

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@Anonymous Yeah, I missed a FILTER:

Measure =
  VAR __Table = ADDCOLUMNS('Table',"__Count",COUNTROWS(FILTER('Table',[ID] = EARLIER([ID])))
RETURN
  COUNTROWS(FILTER(__Table, [__Count] = 1))


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@Anonymous Try:

Measure =
  VAR __Table = ADDCOLUMNS('Table',"__Count",COUNTROWS('Table',[ID] = EARLIER([ID]))
RETURN
  COUNTROWS(FILTER(__Table, [__Count] = 1))


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@Greg_Deckler 

 

Thanks for the suggestion. I am receiving an error that too many arguments were passed to the COUNTROWS function. Is there a way to work around this?

@Anonymous Yeah, I missed a FILTER:

Measure =
  VAR __Table = ADDCOLUMNS('Table',"__Count",COUNTROWS(FILTER('Table',[ID] = EARLIER([ID])))
RETURN
  COUNTROWS(FILTER(__Table, [__Count] = 1))


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