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Anonymous
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How to compare row by row text field with other fields to check similarity

Hello Experts,

    I am new to Power BI and stuck with one of my requirement. Below is my simplified table

resourcename   |  servertype |    start_date   |    Start_Time    |
    Abc                  dbo              06-06-2023       1:00:00 AM
    DBA                 dbo              06-06-2023       1:00:00 AM
    CDS                  ora              04-06-2023        3:00:00 AM

Below table is the requirement is to find concurrency issue, i.e. 2 diferrent resourcename should not have same date, same time & same servertype. So, in first 2 rows we can see the resourcename are differrent but rest all is same. So expectation is that it should  show 2 counts for 06-06-2023 as concurrency issue

 

Output expected:

  Start_date     | Concurrent issue |

  06-06-2023                    2

Could someone please suggest how can we derive this using DAX or Query Editor? 
NOTE: All fields are "text" datatype. If required I can change the datatype for date & time

Thanks in Advance

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lbendlin
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There is no magic formula. You would need to implement all checks manually, using SUMMARIZE and COUNTROWS.  OR - simply plop your data into a matrix visual and present that as a graphical solution to the questions.

 

If you want to be cute you can run a Pearson correlation across your data rows but that is better done outside of Power BI.

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Anonymous
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Thanks @lbendlin  , Thanks for your suggestion. That helped me. I used the below formula and it worked for me

calculate(distinctcount(Table[resourcename]), ALLEXCEPT(Table, Table[servertype], Table[start_date], Table[Start_Time])

lbendlin
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Super User

There is no magic formula. You would need to implement all checks manually, using SUMMARIZE and COUNTROWS.  OR - simply plop your data into a matrix visual and present that as a graphical solution to the questions.

 

If you want to be cute you can run a Pearson correlation across your data rows but that is better done outside of Power BI.

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