This article describes the differences between HASONEVALUE and ISINSCOPE, which are two useful DAX functions to control the filters and the grouping that are active in a report.  Read more

DAX is simple, but it is not easy. I cannot remember how many times I read this sentence on social media, attributed to me. For good reason: I have repeated this sentence at almost every classroom course I delivered over…  Read more

This article describes how to use DAX calculated columns to sort names that look like duplicates at a certain level of a hierarchy, but are unique when considering their full path within the hierarchy.  Read more

This article explains how to show different customers with the same name in a Power BI report by using zero-width spaces, thus simplifying the presentation without adding visible characters to make the names unique.  Read more

DAX Studio is the best tool to analyze the performances of DAX queries. In this webinar recorded for powerbi.tips, Marco Russo shows how to collect metrics in DAX Studio and investigate on storage engine and formula engine cost of some…  Watch now

In this article, we share an idea to reduce the friction in using Power BI, by extending the DAX language with new visual calculations.  Read more

This article shows how to use the USERELATIONSHIP function in DAX to change the active relationship in a CALCULATE function.  Read more

This article shows how to use DAX and conditional formatting together to highlight the minimum and maximum values in a matrix in Power BI.  Read more

This article describes how to use conditional formatting with a DAX expression to color the rows of a table in Power BI based on the order number instead of using the alternate rows color formatting option.  Read more

This article describes in which conditions the precedence of calculation groups might return unexpected results when filtering calculation items in both the visuals and the measures present in a report.  Read more