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Counting Instances in a Column

zellingjAug 30 2017 — edited Aug 31 2017

Hi.  I was given a very useful formula in Excel that I am trying to replicate in OBIEE.  In short, it counts (attaches the value 1) to every discrete instance in a column.  In the case I'm working on, I have a long list of dates and countries.  I need to isolate the countries as instances - so in 2010 we had 48 different countries represented, in 2011 we had 56, etc.  The base table has thousands of rows so I only need to attach a 1 to the first instance of "Date-Country" and leave the remaining identical iterations as 0.  Here is the code I used in Excel. 

=IF(COUNTIF(M$2:$M2,M2)=1,1,0)

In the Execl the second and third M2 would follow the column to it's end (M3, M4, etc.) searching for matches.

Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you.

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