SQLBI Newsletter #332

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NEW ARTICLE

Continuous axis for any Date table in Power BI

Power BI enables the continuous X-axis on the auto date/time hierarchy even at the month level. We can get the same behavior on any Date table by setting the right metadata in TMDL.
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Introducing DAX, 2nd edition (video course)

The new edition of Introducing DAX is live.

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This version includes visual calculations and user-defined functions.

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CLASSROOM COURSES IN 2026

Attend the new in-person Mastering DAX

We are only offering four more Mastering DAX classroom courses until the end of 2026, so make sure to get your seat:

Oct 27-29 - Lugano, CH

Nov 9-11 - Atlanta, GA (USA)

Nov 24-26 - London, UK

Dec 1-3 - Amsterdam, NL

The in-person training now includes AI-tools to generate DAX, new exercises, and you will get full access to the video course as soon as your seat is confirmed!

COMICS

AI BI Blunders

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#332 · Oct 2026

LEARNING

Course calendar

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	Oct 27-29 - Lugano
	Nov 9-11 - Atlanta
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	Dec 1-3 - Amsterdam

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	Intro to Data Modeling
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	DAX Patterns
	Power BI Dashboard Design

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BI-WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST

Latest news

	• SQLBI Whiteboard opens your exported Microsoft Whiteboard boards Why this news? We wrote a Windows application to replace the Microsoft Whiteboard app, which was retired on 16 October. If you exported boards from Microsoft Whiteboard as a ZIP, you can open them in SQLBI Whiteboard. It is free, open source, and has amazing features for teaching. Give it a try! Oct 16, 2026 · SQLBI
	• Power BI October 2026 updates This release follows the many announcements made at Fabcon Europe. Just bug fixes and general availability announcements. No news, good news! Oct 15, 2026 · Microsoft
	• FabCon Europe 2026: Recap #1 If you missed the news about the FabCon Europe 2026 announcements, here is a good overview of what matters to Power BI and semantic model developers: Fabric Apps, emerging semantic model open-source standards, and more. Oct 6, 2026 · Eugene Meidinger
	• FabCon Europe 2026: Recap #2 One recap about FabCon Europe 2026 is not enough, and having different perspectives helps. For example, F0 is a new interesting capacity level for small companies. Oct 5, 2026 · Nikola Ilic
	• Create semantic model hybrid columns for the best of both DirectQuery and Import Missing DirectQuery and Import to activate DirectQuery only on drillthrough for expensive high-cardinality columns has been possible for a while. We have always wanted to write an article about that, but we never prioritized it because of the complexity of this approach. However, we now have an article that explains us how to do that, along with AI agents that can implement the boring part for us. Oct 10, 2026 · Greg Beaumont
	• ApproximateDistinctCount in Power BI is sometimes slower than DistinctCount Actually, there are two articles here: the first introduces APPROXIMATEDISTINCTCOUNT in Import mode, the second warns us about its tradeoffs. As we like to say about anything to do with performance, it depends! Oct 11, 2026 · Chris Webb

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