DAX – Week Ending Date Calculation
The first thought to occur to me was “well, for each Year&WeekOfYear, I just want to grab the max date”. That sounded easy enough… EARLIER() no longer scares me
Category: Quick Tips & Tricks
Grand Total Mania! (Totals at Top & Multiple Totals)
Let’s start 2014 with a bang… I’ve been dying to write this post for awhile now. Let’s say you want your grand totals to appear at the top of your […]
DAX – HASONEVALUE vs. ISFILTERED vs. HASONEFILTER
Picking up from Tuesday’s post, which drew some quick comments, let’s add one more function to our evaluation: HASONEFILTER().
Wingdings and Other Symbolic Fonts in Slicers!
Someone planted an idea in my head the other day: “hey can we use the Wingdings font in slicers?”
Dynamic TopN Reports via Slicers, Part 2
OK, picking up from Tuesday’s post, with the goal of explaining the techniques. And remember, you can download the workbook here! Two Disconnected Slicers Ah, another favorite technique. Slicer tables […]
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.
DAX – Finding the Top-Selling Date, Product, etc.
Greetings from Israel! I’m over here meeting with Microsoft and my old friend Dany Hoter
Conditional Formatting with Different Thresholds per Test, per Product, per Store, per Division, etc.
After a long hiatus, David Hager has returned with a new guest post. He has a clever Excel trick/formula for applying different conditional formatting “acceptable ranges” depending on the context of the current row. In his work, different Tests have different acceptable ranges of values that qualify as Pass/Fail/Warning
Excel 5-Calendar Date Table
For some time, I have been looking around for a fairly complete date table in Excel for use with PowerPivot.
Workarounds for “Canceled Due to Memory Pressure”
You can run into this error via a number of different routes, but one way or another, your computer ran out of memory while PowerPivot was trying to do something.
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
Auto-Modify Every Pivot in a Workbook
It’s been awhile since I’ve talked about Macros (also known as VBA). I think it’s overdue. Macros are nothing short of amazing. We couldn’t live without them at Pivotstream