DISTINCTCOUNT

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Syntax

DISTINCTCOUNT(<column>)

Tutorial with example

In this tutorial we go through all the count functions. Below you can see the keynotes of the tutorial, so you can jump ahead to the one you need:

02:44 COUNT text (#ERROR), 
03:24 COUNT numbers, 
04:20 COUNT blanks, 
04:56 COUNT dates
05:36 COUNTA text, 
06:44 COUNTA numbers
07:27 COUNTX
09:16 COUNTAX
09:58 DISTINCTCOUNT
10:59 COUNTROWS(DISTINCT)
12:06 COUNTBLANK
12:34 COUNTROWS, 
13:32 COUNTROWS with columns (#ERROR), 
14:33 COUNTROWS with an expression

Links to the mentioned resources

To get the files:
1. Go to Curbal Download Center > Dax Fridays
2. Get File #4

Remarks

The only argument allowed to this function is a column. You can use columns containing any type of data. When the function finds no rows to count, it returns a BLANK, otherwise it returns the count of distinct values.

Practice more:

In today’s video we are going to cover the DAX function DISTINCT as well as how DISTINCT compares to VALUES and DISTINCTCOUNT.

Links to the mentioned resources

To get the files:
1. Go to Curbal Download Center > Dax Fridays
2. Get File #87

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