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Kristofferaabo's avatar
8 years ago
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Summarize table

HI,   I would like to create a simple table based on another table, it must pull following columns where "Column A" should be uniques (like an excel pivot table)   Column A (unique values) Colun...
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    v-yuta-msft
    8 years ago

    Hi Kristofferaabo,

     

    To create a new table, in dax, you can use summarize(), selectcolumns(), addcolumns().

    To achieve distinct values in column A oin the calculate table, you can use summarize function like pattern below:

    calculate table =
    UNION (
        SUMMARIZE (
            old_table1,
            old_table1[column_need_to_be_distinct],
            "column1", SUM ( old_table1[column1] )
        ),
        SUMMARIZE (
            old_table2,
            old_table2[column_need_to_de_distinct],
            "column2", SUM ( old_table2[column2] )
        )
    )

    Also refer to DAX summarize here:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/query-bi/dax/summarize-function-dax

     

    Regards,

    Jimmy Tao