This article describes how you can create a comparison with the previous time period in a visualization, regardless of whether the time periods are consecutive or not.  Read more

If you created a Tabular model using one of the preview versions (CTP, RC, …) of Analysis Services 2019, you don’t have the final structure for the Ordinal attribute that Microsoft defined in the final version of compatibility level 1500.…  Read more

This article describes the differences between eager evaluation and strict evaluation in DAX, empowering you to choose the best evaluation type for your data models.  Read more

This article shows a basic technique used to sort months according to a fiscal calendar, by using a couple of calculated columns and the “sort by column” feature of Power BI.  Read more

This article describes how blank values considered in a DAX conditional expression can affect its query plan and how to apply possible optimizations to improve performance in these cases.  Read more

Creating a star schema in Power BI is the best practice to improve performance and more importantly, to ensure accurate results! This article shows why a star schema can fix some of the issues in your report.  Read more

I often get questions about use cases for Azure Analysis Services. So I wanted to do a quick recap of the points I commonly discuss in these conversations, and have them readily available for the next conversation… As a bonus,…  Read more

This article provides information to help choose between DAX and Power Query when a table needs to compute additional columns.  Read more

This article describes how to analyze the performance of a DAX measure based on a DISTINCTCOUNT calculation and how to evaluate possible optimizations.  Read more

This article shows how to add an additional “other” row to the selection obtained using the Top N filter in a Power BI report.  Read more