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As we mentioned, this information may or may not have value but that is not relevant for this article.

This last report shows that Ireland, Italy and several other countries did not produce any sales in 2008, even though there were sales in 20. By removing the filter on the slicer and adding the year on the column of the report, the picture becomes more comprehensive. Fine, but are there other countries that did not sell? The answer is yes, but the report is not showing them.

The report is showing the sales amount in different European countries in 2008. The choice is made by the report author after careful analysis of the requirements.Īn example helps in clarifying the concept. In some reports zeroes have meaning, in others they do not. This is not to say that always showing zeroes is a suggestion. The former provides an indication of poor performance, whereas the latter hides the information as if it were not relevant. Indeed, showing that a product did not sell at all and not showing the product at all are two very different things. Despite it being useful and intuitive, sometimes users want to also see rows that produced blanks, because a value of blank (or zero) makes sense in their context. This behavior is intentional and desirable, as it reduces the number of rows in reports. SUMMARIZECOLUMNS does not return a row when all the columns computed by the query return BLANK. Power BI mainly uses SUMMARIZECOLUMNS to run queries.