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 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

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

If you have read the book Alberto and I wrote, “The Definitive Guide to DAX” then by looking at the title you might think that this post is about the book. Not this time. I am talking about the new…  Read more

DAX Studio connects to a Power BI Desktop model using a technique that was not officially supported until a few months ago. This changed when the “diagnostic port” was documented in this article of the official documentation:  Read more

DAX supports dates starting in 1900 and while teaching DAX I always explain that DAX manages dates like Excel, which is the reason why these limitations exist. Actually, this is true – but answering to a comment today I realized…  Read more

DAX has many time intelligence functions that are often redundant, offering different shorter syntaxes for longer more generic functions. However, sometimes the shorter syntax could be dangerous, as I explain in this blog post where I suggest using CALCULATE and…  Read more

Today we start the preview of Smart Filter Pro. This is the first commercial custom visual produced by OKViz and it will be in preview until the end of 2018.  Read more