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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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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
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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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