DAX – Finding the Top-Selling Date, Product, etc.
Greetings from Israel! I’m over here meeting with Microsoft and my old friend Dany Hoter
Category: Power BI
DAX – Making the “Case” for SWITCH()
Way back during the period of the first CTP of Gemini (which later became PowerPivot), I was working with a data set that included a column of month numbers
KPI’s in PowerPivot V2
On Tuesday, in my intro to David Hager’s post, I promised to circle back “later today” and add some follow-on thoughts. Well, ONE of those words ended up being truthful
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
Percentile Measures in DAX – Errata
Guest Post by Colin Banfield [LinkedIn] In September of last year, I posted two articles on creating percentile measures in DAX. See Creating Accurate Percentile Measures in DAX – Part I and Creating Accurate Percentile Measures in DAX – Part II.
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.
Commission Calculations using DAX Part 2
You may recall in my last post, COMMISSION CALCULATIONS IN POWERPIVOT, we got to the point where we could dynamically calculate the sales value and attributable commission rate that should be applied based on time, value and team parameters, reading from a Rates table.
Commission Calculations using DAX
Firstly, I have to be clear that I’m not presenting a “one-size-fits-all” approach to sales commission calculations here.
Friday Bonus: What is “Stimulus Spending?”
I stumbled into an interesting discussion on Facebook yesterday, and didn’t have room to express my opinion there, so I thought I’d do it here. It’s about the economy, which has been my only real hobby for the past several years.
Cloud PowerPivot: Free Trials for the Public
UPDATE: I am no longer working at Pivotstream and do not endorse their services. All links are removed from this article but feel free to look them up if you are interested.
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.
Datamarket: Quick Followup
“There are people out there whose jobs force them to be the place where two sources of data meet, and they are the ones who integrate and cross-reference that data […]