Microsoft announced at SqlBits a very important feature for DAX: Calculation Groups. These are my first impression about the new feature and the impact it will have on Analysis Services and Power BI.  Read more

This article describes how to display the filter context applied to a calculation using a special DAX measure in Power BI Tooltips.  Read more

This article describes how to write DAX measures that compute aggregations or comparisons with past dates without showing or comparing future dates.  Read more

This week OKViz released Smart Filter Pro 2.0.5, which is the first commercial version of a custom visual for Power BI produced by OKViz. This is the first of other rich and advanced visuals that will be released in the…  Read more

Yesterday I answered to a question related to parameters in DAX that could be useful to other readers who use DAX in Reporting Services (SSRS): how to manage missing parameters of a DAX query? I wrote an article in the…  Read more

This article describes the real meaning of and the required action for a few common error messages that can appear when users define DAX expressions in Power BI.  Read more

There is an existing limitation in the current version of DAX, regarding what names you provide to variables in a DAX expression: a variable name cannot be the name of a table in the data model. This is not a…  Read more

We are approaching the end of 2018, so it is a good time to review what happened in the DAX world this year, what we’ve been up to at SQLBI and what is going to happen in 2019. New DAX…  Read more

This article describes how DAX automatically converts data types in arithmetic operations. These small details can cause and explain differences in results when using the same operations in other languages.  Read more

This article shows how to improve line charts with a date-based X-Axis in Power BI using DAX, and how to make correct choices in the data modeling and visualization properties.  Read more