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Switching a report from one PowerBI dataset to another PowerBI dataset (@donsvensen) Get data from PDF in Power BI (@CurbalEN) Using Dax To Handle Multiple Parent Hierarchies (@PowerPivotPro) DAX Guid…

Why I changed my mind about #PowerApps and became a fan… and why you should, too (@jenstirrup) Optimizing DAX with cardinality estimation (@marcorus) Announcing Dashboard Comments in Power BI: Your new hub to discuss data and collaborate with others Power BI Service and Mobile July & August Feature Summary Power BI Desktop September 2018 Feature […]

In this video, Patrick talks about Power BI Desktop and role-playing dimensions. Can you even do this in Power BI Desktop? Patrick shows you why one particular way is not recommended as it will cause trouble. And then show you how you can use DAX within Power BI Desktop to take this to the next […]

PowerBI.Tips and Phil Seamark are proud to release our third game written in Power BI, DAX Mission Impossible. This game is similar to the game [...]

DAX Studio connects to a Power BI Desktop model using a technique that was not officially supported until a few months ago. This changed when the “diagnos

This Power BI report provides the DAX reference \ Cheat sheet. This report extracts the data from the Dax references from the below MSDN link. The Web Data source and Add tables using using Examples h…

Keyboard shortcuts is an interesting topic for developes that can really improve your report development in Power BI Desktop. In this post I show you some keyboard shortcuts/hotkeys when writing DAX in Power BI Desktop. Indend right: Ctrl + ] Indent left: Ctrl + [ Mini-tip: You can also indent your code to ther … Continue reading Quick Tips: Keyboard Shortcuts/Hotkeys When Writing DAX in Power BI Desktop

Column-based calculations are part of every BI project. Some of the most common examples include building a street address column from individual fields, concatenating a person’s full …

Fun with DAX – Sudoku (@PhilSeamark) Custom Web Fonts and Icons in Power BI (@dataveld) POWER BI REPORT SERVER DEVOPS (Trisha McCormick) Automatically expand all fields from a JSON document in Power BI and Power Query (@TheBIccountant) Correct calculate of age in DAX from birthday (@marcorus) BONUS ITEMS: Segmented Filtering with Slicers (@PowerBITips) More Details […]

Line Breaks And Auto-Indent In The Power BI DAX Formula Bar (@cwebb_bi) Power BI Feature Discrepancies for Data Acquisition (@tlachev) FOUR QUESTIONS TO ASK WHEN PLANNING A POWER BI PREMIUM DEPLOYMENT (@mmarie) Use Outlook Shortcuts to organize your favorite Power BI Reports and Dashboards (@cmfinlan) Easier set up of datasets in Power BI BONUS ITEMS: […]

In this post I show you different implementations of Time Dimension in Power BI. You'll learn how to create Time dimension in DAX, Power Query and also in SQL Server. You also learn how to UNPIVOT Time dimension in DAX to support dynamic time bands. You may use the same technique in SSAS Tabular, Azure AS and PowerPivot.

This article is about how to read and use bullet charts when comparing actuals to a target in Power BI, and the different options you have available to make

Explore the DAX Parser app using PyDAX to parse DAX expressions. Try the demo built with minimal setup on Replit

Write measures, explain DAX code and suggest improvements

We are excited to announce you can now write DAX queries with DAX query view for web from published semantic models in the workspace.

Normalizing conditional formatting bars in Power BI is not easy, but can be done with a measure and a calculation group. No more bars covering the values.

There are different approaches to having a dynamic axis in Power BI. Adam walks you thought 3 way to accomplish it within your Power BI report. Patrick’s Dynamic Axis video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-OWNaCUU0o Kasper’s Blog: https://www.kasperonbi.com/dynamically-switching-axis-on-visuals-with-power-bi/ Patrick’s Personalize Visual video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20HwiEhIShc Buttons & Bookmark playlist

In this lab we will be implementing a forecasting measure using DAX. We will not be generating a forecast data set, rather, we will create a measure that will look at the actuals from the past to f…

Last week I was honoured to take part in the latest edition of the Power BI Dev Camp which is run by my colleague Ted Patterson. It was a fun session which I enjoyed. As part of...

I have decided to spend some more time on Market Basket Analysis, but before I get into the storytelling part of it, I had to clean up and fix a few things in the model file for the Market Basket A…

I have to warn you, this is NOT a level 100 or even 200 tutorial. If you decided to proceed, that you absolutely positively have to get that progressive calculation work and I will have to assume t…

I use Sales data a lot in my tutorials and usually the Sales Fact table will have the following fields in it: DateProductRevenueUnits Along with a bunch of other stuff…. Now, it is actually very co…

I show how you can use Vertipaq Analyzer with your Power BI Model to understand what is consuming memory and how to solve it.

Last week I was honoured to take part in the latest edition of the Power BI Dev Camp which is run by my colleague Ted Patterson. It was a fun session which I enjoyed. As part of the Dev camp, I wal…

DAX Power BI Visual Studio Code External Tool

In this article, I’m going to show how you can use Visual Studio Code to run queries against a Power BI model. Usually, this is the kind of task you would use the excellent DAX Studio for, bu…

I often get this question: "Is it better that I create this calculation as a snapshot table in Power Query (or T-SQL, or the data source), or write DAX measures for it?" If you ever had a scenario of creating a report of snapshots, you know what I mean. "Should I have a table for…

In one of my last tutorials here, we learned how to apply time-intelligence in DAX to analyze the COVID-19 data that is provided by Johns Hopkins University. The focus so far was to provide correct calculations on a daily level or to smooth them using running averages here. In today's quick tutorial, you will learn…

Using Calculation Groups to show currency formatting strings which will display the currency sign in Power BI or Analysis Services

This article describes how to use conditional formatting with a DAX expression to color the rows of a table in Power BI based on the order number instead of