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masons21
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7 years ago

Self-populating table

I'm looking to build a table that references a database. Basically, on the last day of each month I want to count the number of rows in the database and record it with the associated month. I'd like ...
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Mariusz
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7 years ago

Hi masons21 

If all tables have a date stamp you can just use it as a group by in your visual and create a measure that does cont rows on each table.

COUNTROWS( table )
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    masons21
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    7 years ago

    Thanks for your suggestion Mariusz 

     

    That's not exactly what I need to do - I can use the COUNTROWS function but I need the total number of rows in the database each month, regardless of when the rows were generated. So the dates associated with them are meaningless for this purpose as there may be carry-over each month. I need a new row to be generated in a new table each month that populates with the total number of rows in the database at that time.

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      Mariusz
      Community Champion
      7 years ago

      Hi masons21 

      You can not insert rows in query editor ( to my knowledge ), if you are working with direct query ( sql I'm guessing ) you might as well do it there.

      If no one is removing records from your tables ( should not happen anyway ), you could create a measure with running total like below.

       

      Measure = 
COUNTROWS(
    FILTER(
        ALL( 'Table' ),
        'Table'[createdDate] <= MAX('Table'[createdDate] )
    )
)

      This would return 

       



      Based on dataset 

       
      Best Regards,
      Mariusz

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