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

Data lineage is such a well-implemented DAX feature that most developers use it without knowing about it. This article describes data lineage and how it can help in producing better DAX code.  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

Today I woke up with an interesting question, about how to show a selection of months in a nice way, detecting contiguous selection. You can easily understand the desired solution from the following figure: I enjoyed writing a quick solution,…  Read more

Activating bidirectional cross-filter in a Tabular data model might create ambiguous paths in the chain of relationships, resulting in very dangerous models as numbers become unpredictable. This article provides a deep explanation of the kind of ambiguity that might appear…  Read more

This article describes how DAX automatically converts data types in arithmetic operations. These small details can cause and explain differences in results when using the same operations in other languages.  Read more

This article shows how to improve line charts with a date-based X-Axis in Power BI using DAX, and how to make correct choices in the data modeling and visualization properties.  Read more

In budgeting reports, a common requirement is to show future sales forecast and actual sales volume on the same line chart. This article describes how to achieve this goal using DAX.  Read more

This article describes how variables should be used in DAX expressions involving IF and SWITCH statements in order to improve performance.  Read more

This article describes how to create a measure displaying the name or value of an element that has a specific ranking, with different option for managing ties.  Read more