At the end of March, we released the second update of SQLBI+ with a new session about different types of many-to-many relationships in DAX. The goal is to explain the difference between the many-to-many cardinality relationship available in Power BI…  Read more

Yesterday we published an April Fool: Navigating the Data Ecosystem: A Revolutionary Analytics Architecture. The idea of writing a piece about a new architecture that could immediately make the latest cool buzzwords obsolete rounded my mind for a few weeks.…  Read more

After the SQLBI+ launch in November 2022, we released the first update with additional content: two sessions about Time Intelligence and one whitepaper about the new DAX window functions. This is much more than the single Time Intelligence session we…  Read more

If you create server aliases for SQL Server connections, you should be aware of the changes introduced in SQL Server 2022. At SQLBI we use aliases to identify the server’s name in the connection of our sample files (Power BI…  Read more

Here we are, at the end of another year, to see what happened in the DAX world.  Read more

There are cases where the dictionary size reported by VertiPaq Analyzer (used by DAX Studio, Bravo for Power BI, and Tabular Editor 3) does not correspond to the actual memory required by the dictionary. However, the number reported is technically…  Read more

DAX Studio 3 was released today. This new, major version offers a new user interface and user experience, providing a modern look and feel without losing any of the features available in previous versions. On the contrary, in DAX Studio…  Read more

We recently updated SUMMARIZECOLUMNS on DAX Guide by adding an example that clarifies the difference between a filter applied to SUMMARIZECOLUMNS and a filter applied to CALCULATETABLE. Most of the times, you can move a filter from a SUMMARIZECOLUMNS argument…  Read more

The Whiteboard is a new series on the SQLBI YouTube channel where I use a whiteboard to describe abstract DAX and Tabular concepts in a more interactive way. I usually represent these concepts by drawing on a whiteboard in our…  Read more

If you try to use SELECTEDVALUE on the visible column of the table generated by the Fields Parameters feature in Power BI, you get the following error: Calculation error in measure ‘Sales'[Selection]: Column [Parameter] is part of composite key, but…  Read more