Topic: DAX
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This article provides you with the technical knowledge to choose between using a Date or an Integer to create the relationship between your fact table and the Date dimension. Read more
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This article shows how to use calculation groups to define a default set of values for columns in your model. Different users can have different default values, and yet retain the full capability to select different values. Read more
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This article describes how blank values considered in a DAX conditional expression can affect its query plan and how to apply possible optimizations to improve performance in these cases. Read more
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In this article we show some techniques to force a measure to return zero instead of blank, in order to highlight combinations of attributes with no data. Read more
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You can implement the calculation of stock inventory over time in several ways in DAX. The xVelocity technology in Power Pivot and Analysis Services Tabular is so fast that you might consider both dynamic calculation and snapshot-based calculation, depending on… Read more
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SUMMARIZE is a very powerful and very complex function to use. This article describes its internal behavior, and provides guidance on how to use it. Read more
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Everyone using DAX is probably used to SQL query language. Because of the similarities between the Tabular data modeling and the relational data modeling, there is the expectation that you can perform the same operations as those allowed in SQL.… Read more
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This article describes how to use KEEPFILTERS in DAX iterator functions to preserve arbitrarily shaped filters in context transition. Read more
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A Date table in Power BI can have a smaller number of columns by leveraging custom format strings to adequately control the chart visualization and the sort order. Read more
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This article shows how to compute a measure that sums the values produced row by row in the visual into the visual total, instead of recomputing the total value in the filter context of the total. Read more