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bshawbulldog
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Create a column from all distinct values from all columns

I am trying to create a table from all distinct values from all columns and their count. Any help?

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Hi @bshawbulldog,

 

On the query editor select all your columns, then go to Transform - Unpivot

 

You will get a table with two columns Attribute e values.

 

Then on the PBI front do a new table with 

Table = SUMMARIZE(Table; Table[Attribute];Table[Value]; "count" ; COUNT(Table[Value]))

 

 

This will give you distinct for attributes (column name) and Values (data in table) and count of those values

 

Regards,

MFelix

 

 


Regards

Miguel Félix


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v-shex-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @bshawbulldog,

 

Current I haven't found any functions suitable your requirement, maybe you can use below formula to manually summary values:

 

Test =
VAR temp =
    UNION (
        CROSSJOIN (
            ADDCOLUMNS ( { "Column1" }, "Count", COUNTROWS ( VALUES ( Table[Column1] ) ) ),
            VALUES ( Table[Column1] )
        ),
        CROSSJOIN (
            ADDCOLUMNS ( { "Column2" }, "Count", COUNTROWS ( VALUES ( Table[Column2] ) ) ),
            VALUES ( Table[Column2] )
        ),
        CROSSJOIN (
            ADDCOLUMNS ( { "Column3" }, "Count", COUNTROWS ( VALUES ( Table[Column3] ) ) ),
            VALUES ( Table[Column3] )
        )
    )
RETURN
    SELECTCOLUMNS (
        temp,
        "Column Name", [Value],
        "Detail", [Column1],
        "Count", [Count]
    )

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

Community Support Team _ Xiaoxin
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Hi @v-shex-msft

The problem here is I might have 100 different columns.

Hi @bshawbulldog,

 

On the query editor select all your columns, then go to Transform - Unpivot

 

You will get a table with two columns Attribute e values.

 

Then on the PBI front do a new table with 

Table = SUMMARIZE(Table; Table[Attribute];Table[Value]; "count" ; COUNT(Table[Value]))

 

 

This will give you distinct for attributes (column name) and Values (data in table) and count of those values

 

Regards,

MFelix

 

 


Regards

Miguel Félix


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Proud to be a Super User!

Check out my blog: Power BI em Português



MFelix
Super User
Super User

Hi  @bshawbulldog,

 

create the table with the following formula:

 

SummaryTable = SUMMARIZE(ALL(Table[Column]); Table[Column]; "count" ; COUNT(Table[Column]))

Should give the expected result.

 

Regards,

Mfelix


Regards

Miguel Félix


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Check out my blog: Power BI em Português



Hi @MFelix

That does not work the way I need it to. I'm looking to have all the distinct values from column 1 ... n in a single column.

Rfranca
Resolver IV
Resolver IV

 

hi, @bshawbulldog

 

Your request for help was very general, give us more details or make the database available to help you.

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