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Jason5000 Newbie Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 2	Topic: One distinct count on four columns Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 11:42am
	Hi All, I'm new to CR 2008. Is there a way to do one distinct count on four separate columns? I can do a count of each column, but I need to weed out dates that were already counted from a prior column. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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DBlank Moderator Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 9053	Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 12:07pm
	can you explain a little more with some sample data and how it should be counted?
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Jason5000 Newbie Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 2	Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 12:16pm
	This is a bit of an oversimplification but basically, it looks like: Date1 Date2 Date3 Date4 Event 1 7/1/10 7/3/10 Event 2 7/3/10 7/4/10 7/7/10 Event 3 7/3/10 7/3/10 7/4/10 To look at each colum separately, I can total this file to having 7 total distinct dates (2 in Date1, 2 in Date2, 1 in Date3 and 2 in Date4). What I'm needing is a distinct count that looks at all four columns. In this case, there are only 4 distinct dates across all four columns. Any guidance you could provide is greatly appreciated.
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DBlank Moderator Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 9053	Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 4:29pm
	hmmm, a simple crystal only solution is eluding me here. I have taken column level data like this and used a SQL stored proc or view to convert it into row data (e.g what is now 1 row becomes 1 row with the 4 date columns converted into one column) then used that as the source which makes the distinctcount very easy. You could union the table into itself 4 times to do the same type of conversion. Either of these seem reasonable or doable? Anyone else seeing a more straight forward solution? Edited by DBlank - 27 Jul 2010 at 4:30pm
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