SQLBI offers a new introductory DAX video course called Introducing DAX. This article describes which users will benefit more from this learning experience, and how to enroll in the course.  Read more

This article describes how DAX resolves column and measure names in DAX, providing best practices to avoid conflicting names.  Read more

This article describes different techniques to retrieve multiple values from a lookup table in DAX, improving code readability and performance.  Read more

One of the side effects that you might not expect from a table filter in a CALCULATE statement is the removal of an existing filter. In reality, this is a condition that happens when you write an explicit CALCULATE in a row context, because the table  Read more

This article describes how table expansion and filter context propagation are important DAX concepts to understand and fix small glitches in DAX expressions.  Read more

This article explains how to use SUMMARIZECOLUMNS, which is a replacement of SUMMARIZE and does not require the use of ADDCOLUMNS to obtain good performance.  Read more

If you do not have a full month with data, comparisons such as year-over-year (YOY) might require particular filters in order to do a like for like comparison in DAX. This article describes how to write DAX expressions comparing equivalent…  Read more

If you work with Power Pivot, Power BI, or Analysis Services Tabular, you probably already know VertiPaq Analyzer. If you never used it, with the new release 1.7 you have another couple of very good reason to try it. VertiPaq Analyzer is a Power Pivot  Read more

VertiPaq Analyzer is useful to analyze VertiPaq storage structures for a data model in Analysis Services Tabular. Learn how to connect VertiPaq Analyzer to Power BI and to SSAS Tabular, and see quick overview of the features available. Then, download…  Watch now

This article analyzes how to efficiently work with events that lasts over time, such as the duration of an order considering the distance between order date and ship date.  Read more