How to use “CrossJoin” in DAX

The “CrossJoin” function returns the Cartesian product of all rows from all tables in the arguments. In my sample below I want to have sales per year per city.

EVALUATE
ADDCOLUMNS (
SUMMARIZE (
CROSSJOIN (
VALUES ( 'Date'[Calendar Year] ),
VALUES ( Geography[City] )
),
'Date'[Calendar Year],
Geography[City]
),
"Sum of Sales", CALCULATE ( SUM ( 'Internet Sales'[Sales Amount] ) )
)

And the result looks like this

CrossJoin1

But as you can see I get a lot of empty rows. To remove these empty rows I add a filter to my query. I also moved my calculation outside the main query to make it more readable.

DEFINE
MEASURE 'Internet Sales'[Sales] =
SUM ( 'Internet Sales'[Sales Amount] )
EVALUATE
ADDCOLUMNS (
FILTER (
SUMMARIZE (
CROSSJOIN (
VALUES ( 'Date'[Calendar Year] ),
VALUES ( Geography[City] )
),
'Date'[Calendar Year],
Geography[City]
),
'Internet Sales'[Sales] <> 0
),
"Sum of Sales", 'Internet Sales'[Sales]
)

CrossJoin 1

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