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Counting Distinct Things

Part of the Power BI Basics section of Coddy's Power BI journey. Lesson 10 of 28.

DISTINCTCOUNT counts each different value of a column once.

Customers = DISTINCTCOUNT(Sales[CustomerID])

A customer with ten orders has ten rows but counts once.

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How many different customers does each shop have? Write Customers, counting each Sales[CustomerID] once. It is checked for each store.

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