I am proud to announce the second version of the Contoso Data Generator! In January 2022, we released the first version of an open-source project to create a sample relational database for semantic models in Power BI and Analysis Services.… Read more
Did you ever want to extract a VPAX file using a command line tool? If you are among the early adopters of DataOps principles or simply want to automate processes, you will be glad to know that we now have… Read more
This article clarifies how DAX evaluates variables, which is important to avoid common mistakes when using DAX for the first time. Read more
This article introduces the ‘atomic design methodology’ as an approach to make Power BI development more efficient and repeatable. Read more
The like-for-like sales comparison is an adjusted metric that compares two time periods restricting the comparison to products or stores with the same characteristics In this example we use the like-for-like technique to compare the sales of Contoso stores that… More on DAX Patterns
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
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