Resolved: Differences between using COUNTROWS & SumX
Why we use "COUNTROWS" to calculate total sales and not use SUMX function and is there a differences between them
Although COUNTROWS function counts the number of rows in the specified table, or in a table defined by an expression so why used instead of SUMX function to get total sales per colour
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We use COUNTROWS because each row is a sale in our case. And we need to count them, we cannot use a SUM or SUMX to count the rows. We can find out the total sales amount in color using SUMX because this is a different calculation. Total sales is number of orders whilst total sales amount is the sum of the actual amount of money people paid for all sales in a specific color let's say.