DAX - Grouping by 2 different fields in 1

Question

Hi,
Imagine a table that has persons. Persons have a set of attributes like Father and Mother profession. In each of the fields, the contents are on the same context, you can have a person that has a father or mother that is a doctor, engineer or teacher.
Imagine this set of data now:
Name: Michael - Father Profession: Doctor -
Mother Profession: Teacher
Name: John - Father Profession: engineer - Mother Profession: Teacher
Name: Sarah - Father Profession: Doctor - Mother Profession: engineer 
Name: Connor - Father Profession: engineer - Mother Profession: Teacher
What I want is to group the 2 profession fields to count the number of people that has a father /mother of that profession, so In the end the result has to be like this (3 fields) -
using DAX expressions
Doctor: 2 on Father  0 on Mother
Engineer: 2 on father 1 on mother
Teacher: 0 on father 3 on mother
Thank you

Answer 1

Hi Pedro,
According to your description, you want to group number of fathers and mothers on Profession based on your source data. Right?
In Analysis Services Tabular, there's no function to pivot the result set in DAX. For your requirement, the most effective workaround is calculate the result on T-SQL query level. Then return retrieve it into Tabular. Please refer to the query below:
create table #temp1(
name nvarchar(50),
parent nvarchar(50),
profession nvarchar(50))
insert into #temp1 values
('Mike','Father','Doctor'),
('Mike','Mother','Teacher'),
('John','Father','Engineer'),
('John','Mother','Teacher'),
('Sara','Father','Doctor'),
('Sara','Mother','Engineer'),
('Connor','Father','Engineer'),
('Connor','Mother','Teacher')
WITH Cte AS(
select profession,parent,count(1) count from #temp1 group by profession,parent
SELECT profession,isnull([father],0) father,isnull([mother],0) mother FROM Cte
pivot
sum(count) for parent in([father],[mother])
) as pvt
Best Regards,
Simon Hou
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