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@@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ Some of them are as follows.
 
 In addition, there are some Dataset methods that will not work on streaming Datasets. They are actions that will immediately run queries and return results, which does not make sense on a streaming Dataset. Rather, those functionalities can be done by explicitly starting a streaming query (see the next section regarding that).
 
-- `count()` - Cannot return a single count from a streaming Dataset. Instead, use `ds.groupBy.count()` which returns a streaming Dataset containing a running count. 
+- `count()` - Cannot return a single count from a streaming Dataset. Instead, use `ds.groupBy().count()` which returns a streaming Dataset containing a running count. 
 
 - `foreach()` - Instead use `ds.writeStream.foreach(...)` (see next section).