Get the total of a column in the report - powerbi

Very new to Power BI here! How can I get the total/sum of the entries of a column that is displayed in my report dashboard.
I'm interested to get the total only from the column in the report, not from the table itself,
I tried SUM in column settings, but I get on that an astronomical number in billions, while the true number should be around 200K when choosing Do Not Summarize.

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Totals in table visual is not shown in power BI

I'm using powerbi desktop version and I've added a measure as a column in the table visual.
Enabled totals as well but unfortunately I'm not able to see the total value of that particular column to be displayed.
The same table contains several other measures for which the total appears but not for one particular column. This has data type decimal number.
Any suggestions?
TIA!!!

DirectQuery - Very inefficient queries being generated to Snowflake

I am connecting PBI to Snowflake using DirectQuery. To keep it simple, I have two tables, a product dimension table and a sales fact table. There are 3.7M rows in the product dimension table and 100M in the sales fact table. I also have a measure that calculates total sales which uses SUM to sum a column in the fact table.
I create a table visual in PBI and put the product description as the first column. The query generated by PBI is good. It retrieves 501 rows and displays them. So far, so good. Next I put the total sales measure as the second column. Now PBI generates several queries retrieving 1,000,001 rows. Of course I get an error stating the 1M row limit for DirectQuery has been reached.
This should not be happening. Has anyone run into something like this? Is there anything I can do?
I had a dig around and there is a capability to adjust the limit if you have a premium license
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/five-new-power-bi-premium-capacity-settings-is-available-on-the-portal-preloaded-with-default-values-admin-can-review-and-override-the-defaults-with-their-preference-to-better-fence-their-capacity/

Show All Column Values

Is it possible to show a column in a matrix table when there is no row in the dataset. E.g in Excel you can create a manual table as below and when data exists it populates according. So if the dataset has no row for 100 Days + this should show as 0. But in Power BI the columns only show if there is data. So the tables are all different sizes. 
What i want to show is the below but i am only getting 3 columns in power bi (0-1 days, 2-7 days and 8-14 days) and not the whole groups 
Any help is appreciated! 
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How can I get the number of days by month from a slicer in Power BI?

I just want to select a range of days in a slicer and show in a table the number of days for each month/period (month-year).
I used DAX to create a table with the information I need and I don't have problems with the periods (first column), it changes dinamically, the problem is the column "Days" (second column) because it's always showing the total number of days for each month.
Here my DAX code
SelectedPeriods = GROUPBY(DimDate;DimDate[Period];"Days";COUNTX(CURRENTGROUP();DimDate[DateKey]))
Here the result
What I expect is:
2 for april, 31 for may, 1 for june
This is an issue with execution order.
SelectedPeriods = GROUPBY(DimDate;DimDate[Period];"Days";COUNTX(CURRENTGROUP();DimDate[DateKey]))
Generates a calculated table. These are calculated when the data model is refreshed and stored in it. They are not refreshed each time a connected dimension is changed within a dashboard.
In your case, while changing date filters may hide rows from this table the number of days remains fixed at the number calculated initially when there was no filter context on the data i.e. counting all days in the month.
If you want the result to change then you need to use a measure instead of a calculated table. Measures react to the current filter context within the report and so will adjust their output each time a slicer is changed.
The needed measure will depend on your model but might be something as simple as:
CountOfDays := CountRows(DimDate)

how to get monthly and yearly totals using dax

I'm kind of new to the power bi. I want to calculate the monthly yearly totals from the column Amount and TRD_date column. Please see the below data
The solution does not require DAX. You can do this easily in Power Bi Report Desktop. Just follow these steps:
Step 1- create a new Report and on a blank report, click the Table visual (show highlighted in yellow below)
Step 2- Bring in your datasource and drag over to the Values area of the visual, the Date column first, then the Amount column second. Your values will look like:
Step 3- Remove (click the X) for the Date-> Quarter Value and Date-> Day value. This will total the amounts for you by Month and Year.
Your table will be a shown below:
My data is shown here for reference: