distinctcountnoblank-function-dax.md

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DISTINCTCOUNTNOBLANK

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Counts the number of distinct values in a column.

Syntax

DISTINCTCOUNTNOBLANK (<column>)  

Parameters

Term	Description
column	The column that contains the values to be counted

Return value

The number of distinct values in column.

Remarks

• Unlike DISTINCTCOUNT function, DISTINCTCOUNTNOBLANK does not count the BLANK value.

• [!INCLUDE function-not-supported-in-directquery-mode]

Example

The following example shows how to count the number of distinct sales orders in the column ResellerSales_USD[SalesOrderNumber].

= DISTINCTCOUNT(ResellerSales_USD[SalesOrderNumber])  

DAX query

EVALUATE
    ROW(
        "DistinctCountNoBlank", DISTINCTCOUNTNOBLANK(DimProduct[EndDate]),
        "DistinctCount", DISTINCTCOUNT(DimProduct[EndDate])
    )

[DistinctCountNoBlank]	[DistinctCount]
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