Table Query

[Fireoyster]

Hello, New to Bi looks awesome. I am looking to find out how I can create a table listing the students and the number of times they have taken the class. any help would be appreciated.

Student ID	Name	Course	Date
S001	Student 1	Math 101	2025-04-01
S001	Student 1	Math 102	2025-04-03
S001	Student 1	Math 103	2025-04-01
S002	Student 2	Welsh	2025-04-03
S002	Student 2	American	2025-04-03
S002	Student 2	English	2025-04-01
S003	Student 3	Irish	2025-04-03
S003	Student 3	French	2025-04-01
S003	Student 3	German	2025-04-03
S004	Student 4	Math 101	2025-04-04
S004	Student 4	Math 101	2025-04-05
S004	Student 4	Math 109	2025-04-06

[rohit1991]

Hi @Fireoyster 

Welcome to Power BI. Glad you're enjoying it so far! To create a table that lists each student and the number of times they’ve taken a class, you can easily do this using the visual and aggregation features. Simply load your data into Power BI, then create a Table visual.

Drag the Student ID and Name fields into the table, and then drag the Course field into the values area and set it to "Count" (this will count how many courses each student has taken). This count will show the number of rows (i.e., class attendances) per student. If you want a DAX measure instead, you can create one like this:

ClassCount = COUNTROWS('YourTableName')

[v-kpoloju-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Fireoyster,
Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft fabric community forum. 

After thoroughly reviewing the details you provided, I was able to reproduce the scenario, and it worked on my end. I have used it as sample data on my end and successfully implemented it.    

I am also including .pbix file for your better understanding, please have a look into it:

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[v-kpoloju-msft]

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[v-kpoloju-msft]

Hi @Fireoyster,

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[v-kpoloju-msft]

Hi @Fireoyster,

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[GilbertQ]

Hi @Fireoyster 

Welcome and I'm sure you all enjoy the experience of the community and learning a lot as you go through this process with. regards to your question and what you're looking for is to create a dax measure which will count the number of students. There is a sample below. How do you create this based on your example above?

Course Count = DISTINCTCOUNT('TableName'[Course])

Put this measure into a table, then drag in the Name to get a count of how many courses the student took.