I blogged about the various ways to use Measure tables and Measure Sub Folders in Power BI a few weeks back. I discussed why measure tables may be required, and also a few reasons why you may choose not to use a measure table. I also mentioned some alternatives to using […]
Level: Intermediate – I have had a couple of requests for help during my live training classes and online training classes on how to build a Six Sigma Control Charts in Power BI. Now I am not professing to be a Six Sigma black belt, but I do know how […]
I often get asked about how to create measure tables during my Power BI course classes. This post will discuss the merits of measure tables versus storing your measures in the table where the data comes from. What is a Measure Table? A measure table is a dedicated table used […]
I had an interesting question from one of my book readers and I thought it would make a good blog article. There are many ways of solving this problem, and I blogged about solving a similar problem Fill Table with Last Survey Result using DAX here. The solution I am providing in […]
Way back in Oct-2016, Microsoft released a feature in Power BI Desktop that makes the process of creating groups much easier for the average user. I was reminded of this feature by an article by Reid Havens a couple of months ago. I blogged about various other ways of doing […]
Updated: 17 Jan 2020. Updated: 22 Sep 2021. Updated: 27 Apr 2022 – Walkthrough Video Added Background This is the 3rd iteration of this Power BI Visual Based on Selection article, attempting to address some of the confusion that has emerged since I added the [Check Filtered] measure into the […]
Just a short post today to share with you a permanent fix to something that has been annoying me (maybe you too – but then again I am easily annoyed 🙂 ). Edit: read the comments below from Amir Netz from Microsoft where he explains why this change was made […]
Level: Intermediate There is a concept in the DAX language called “Syntax Sugar”. Simply put, the developers have created simplified versions of more complex formulas to make it easier for people to learn and use the DAX functions. Here are a couple of examples. Total Sales Syntax Sugar = SUM(Sales[ExtendedAmount]) […]
One of the things I like about my live, online training courses is that I get to hear great questions from the trenches from people learning DAX and Power BI. Last week, John asked me how to apply conditional formatting with a Text field (not a numeric field). I knew […]
I was trying to clean up my hard disk drive on my PC the other day. I use a program called WinDirStat to show me graphically what is taking space (as an aside, this is great software and you can download it here). After running the software I noticed that […]
I woke up Saturday morning to a lot of chatter and blog articles about an announcement that Microsoft made at SQL Bits. Microsoft is adding “Calculation Groups” to the DAX language. There are a number of blogs already that talk about the announcement, including Chris Webb and The Italians, but […]
I was answering a question for a student in one of my online training courses this week. The question was, “Do you know of a way in power query to efficiently extract YYYY-MM from a Date column?” This can be done ‘manually’ with multiple steps including: Extract the Year into […]
Updated Feb 2019. This is an edited version of my original article which first appeared on my site in Feb 2016. The rate of change in the tools available to a Business Analyst has never been faster than it is today. The market is changing so quickly that many Business […]
Matt here. The blog article this week was written by Neville de Sousa. Neville shared with me a Power BI report that shows all the Power BI features released since July 2015. Neville will explain the background and his report. Neville: Keeping track of Power BI Desktop’s amazing features since […]
My series about common patterns for loading data using Power Query received quite a lot of interest over the last few weeks. You can review those articles in the links below Combine all files in a folder with Power Query. Load the Latest Version of a File with Power Query. […]
This is the longest running blog post series I have on my website. Why does Power Pivot Crash so often and what can I do about it? I have three previous articles that you can read in the links below Original post (Oct 16): Does the Power Pivot Excel Add […]
There are quite a few different common business scenarios where you get data in the form of a file on a regular basis. The 3 common patterns I use most often are. Each day/month/year you get a new file containing incremental data. All the data in all the files need […]
Late in 2018 there was a new Power Query book written by Gil Raviv called Collect, Combine and Transform Data Using Power Query in Excel and Power BI. That’s a bit of a mouthful actually; maybe the title was influenced by the same people that call Power Query “Get and […]
There are quite a few common business scenarios where you get data in the form of a file on a regular basis from some source system and you need to process these files into your Power BI reports. There are 3 common patterns that come to mind. Each day/month/year you […]
I was chatting to a few of my Power BI buddies during the week about when we thought the December 2018 update would be released. It seemed to me that under normal circumstances the new version is released on or about the first Monday (US time) on or after the […]
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