Break your DAX Problem into Manageable Parts
One of the concepts I discuss in my new book Learn to Write DAX, is that you should break your DAX problems into manageable pieces so that you can solve the problem one step at a time.
Category: Data Strategy
Red Nose Special: 24 Distinctive Ways to Die
An article on the 24 Distinctive Ways to Die by state.
Insight as a Service – Your Next Career?
Is Your Brain More Valuable Than You Know? ***Update: May 2015 This article is now three years old. I’ve been gone from my last company now for more than two […]
DAX – Top-Selling Product using FIRSTNONBLANK()
First of all, apologies for being so late. I feel like a total zombie, we got to our house in Ohio 22 hours after we arrived at the airport in Tel Aviv.
Beta-Testing the “ROI Quadrant”
If you’ve been around Business Intelligence for the past ten years, you’ve seen a LOT of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant. You can see the 2012 version here on Microstrategy’s web site.
DAX – Weighted Averages: Another Use of SUMX()
Another Question from the Mr. Excel Forums Got a question on the forums the other day. It took some extra twists and turns but the simplest version of the question is worth covering here: how do I perform a weighted average?
Aged Debtors–Dynamic Banding in DAX
Guest post by David Churchward [Twitter] Having hit the P&L and Cash Flow in previous posts, it seems only reasonable to move on to Balance Sheet aspects. The die-hard “non-accountant” Excel […]
VLOOKUP Week: Who Needs VLOOKUP Anymore?
A couple of years ago at lunch, Bill remarked to me that VLOOKUP was the “scariest” feature in Excel
Moore’s Law and Inflation
SQL Rockstar, aka Tom LaRock (Blog | Twitter) sent me a fascinating data set the other day: a table of different computing devices over the years, their “horsepower” in calculations per second
DAX – The Correct Usage of EARLIER()
Tonight I was looking at one of my recent posts, the one about “fuzzy” time relationships in calculated columns, and I discovered that I had used the EARLIER() function in places that I did not need to.
DAX – Switching Subtotals On & Off Dynamically Using DAX in PowerPivot
In this post, I’ll explain how to create a dynamic measure that works out whether a subtotal is needed and displays that subtotal accordingly. I’ll be using the report that was created as part of the Cash Flow Statement post.
Profit & Loss (Part 3)–Return On Sales and Variances
PART 1 and PART 2 of this series on Profit and Loss posts covered the basic layout of the P&L together with some time intelligence and filtering to display relevant numbers to cover actual, budget and prior year for both a selected period and the equivalent year to date. This was all based around the core measure referred to as Cascade_Value_All.