This week OKViz released Smart Filter Pro 2.0.5, which is the first commercial version of a custom visual for Power BI produced by OKViz. This is the first of other rich and advanced visuals that will be released in the…  Read more

This article describes the real meaning of and the required action for a few common error messages that can appear when users define DAX expressions in Power BI.  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 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

This article describes the behavior of auto-exist in DAX, explaining the side effects of combining slicers on columns of the same table in Power BI.  Read more