A name is important. The right name is important. In this post, I reflect on the choice of names in the Microsoft BI stack. From time to time, a bad name arises. Not a big issue, as together we tend…  Read more

DAX.do is a new website by SQLBI where you can write and run DAX queries over a sample Contoso database. The goal of DAX.do is purely educational: if you are learning DAX or are merely curious to test a new…  Read more

When I started publishing YouTube videos, I was eager to read about the setup of other speakers. I was starting from scratch, needing to purchase all the equipment, and I had no idea how to get the most bang for…  Read more

In the past few months, we delivered an increasing number of sessions online. It did the job as a replacement for in-person events, but we did not particularly enjoy the lack of interaction among other limitations. We want to provide…  Read more

How many times did you ask a technical question, to be met with a laconic “it depends”? Or worse, for your question to be totally ignored? This is so typical on Internet forums. I know it is depressing not to…  Read more

We are launching a new series of videos that we refer to internally as the “unplugged”. Why did we choose to set this series apart from the rest? You see, we usually publish videos with a specific topic and goal:…  Read more

At the end of a year marked by the pandemic, it is time for our usual review of what happened in the DAX realm. The enthusiasm we typically demonstrate in this traditional end-of -year post is tainted this year by…  Read more

We all have biases. Personally, I kick myself whenever I identify that I have applied my biases when doing an evaluation of any kind. Unfortunately, this happens often because I work with numbers every day. Do you think we at…  Read more

Power BI offers several options to create filters and slicers in a report. However, it is not possible to define a default filter at the model level so that every new report on a dataset automatically applies that filter. The…  Read more

Great news! Just one year after releasing the second edition of The Definitive Guide to DAX, we just published a new website, a new book, and a new collection of videos: the second edition of DAX Patterns! DAX Patterns is…  Read more