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SQLBI+ updates in December 2024

We released more content in SQLBI+ with two new sessions: Introducing Visual Calculations in Power BI: This two-hour session introduces the Visual Calculations feature in Power BI, which is still in preview. We plan to update the “Understanding Visual Calculations…  Read more

What we are working on at SQLBI

No, this is not the end-of-the-year blog post about what happened in 2024: There is still more than one month to go! However, we are receiving many requests asking what we are working on at SQLBI. I wanted to write…  Read more

SQL database in Fabric

In the mass of announcements made at Microsoft Ignite, I want to mention the SQL database in Fabric, which finally closes a gap we had in Power BI for many years. In May 2022, Microsoft launched Power BI Datamarts in…  Read more

DAX Patterns

Standard time-related calculations

In this pattern we show you how to compute time-related calculations like year-to-date same period last year and percentage growth using a standard calendar The great advantage of working with a standard calendar is that you can rely on several…  More on DAX Patterns


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Optimizing DAX, Second Edition

Optimizing DAX is the state-of-the-art book on optimizing DAX expressions in Power BI and Analysis Services semantic models.
Learn how to locate performance bottlenecks, read the query plan and performance metrics, rewrite the slower part of an expression, and measure the performance improvements. Read more