Topic: DAX
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A few hours ago, DAX Studio 2.5.0 has been released, with a number of small new features (I will write about DirectQuery and new column in Server Timings in a future blog post and article). In the many bug fixes, this version of DAX Studio does not raise Read more
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A recent change in the DAX language transformed the behavior of IF statement, so that it should not return BLANK but only TRUE/FALSE if the results should be logical expressions. In that case, the BLANK is transformed in a FALSE condition. For example, Read more
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If you are used to virtual relationships in DAX (see Handling Different Granularities in DAX ), you probably use the following pattern relatively often: [Filtered Measure ] := CALCULATE ( <target_measure>, FILTER Read more
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Microsoft Press released a free eBook you can already download , Introducing Microsoft Power BI , which I and Alberto Ferrari wrote in the last few months. Please note it is a very introductive book, don’t expect an inside-out. As we wrote in the introduction: Read more
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I wrote an article about Time Intelligence in Power BI Desktop to explain how to fix measures using DAX functions for time intelligence when you have a data model where the relationship uses surrogate keys. THe short description is that all the time intelligence Read more
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The latest version of Power Pivot Utils v 1.05 has a new feature that deserves the immediate upgrade: you can list unused columns ! Thanks to Idan Cohen and Amir Hefetz for their contribute to the macros developed by Bertrand d'ARBONNEAU! Read more
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If you are using Power BI Desktop or Power Pivot in Excel 2016, you should learn when and how you can use GROUPBY instead of SUMMARIZE. The SUMMARIZE function is very powerful and internally very complex, so it’s easy to find scenarios where you get unexpected Read more
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In a couple of weeks, I will move to Australia for 3 weeks, visiting Melbourne and Sydney for a number of events and training. This is the list of topics in public events you can attend (with link to registration pages – remember that SQL Saturday conferences Read more
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When you use Power Pivot, there are a number of operations requiring more than one click (or much more than just Excel): Creating a pivot table based on the current data model (at least 2 or 3 clicks) Create a table of existing measures (including its Read more
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This short blog post is a note that could help myself in the future, or anyone who is interested in writing a client tool for Analysis Services. When you establish a session to Analysis Services, you can run both DAX and MDX statements. In DAX, you can Read more