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karun_r
Employee
Employee

DISTINCT over SUMMARIZE

I have a measure that follows the pattern as mentioned below

 

Test Adds =
CALCULATE (
    SUMX (
        DISTINCT ( SUMMARIZE ( Sales, Sales[Order Date], Sales[Order Number] ) ),
        IF ( Sales[Sales Amount] > 0, 1, 0 )
    )
)

 

I was wondering if I really need the DISTINCT over a SUMMARIZE call as the latter would already return unique combinations of order date and order number. Also, is there a better way to calculate the total number of orders for each day for which the sales amount > 0 ?

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Greg_Deckler
Super User
Super User

I do not see the need for DISTINCT, SUMMARIZE already makes things distinct.

Maybe, but don't know your data to be sure. Should just be able to use COUNTROWS and FILTER the table returned from SUMMARIZE but not sure that is more efficient or not.

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