DAX – The Diabolical Genius of “SWITCH TRUE”
SWITCH() is still testing for equivalence! By providing the first argument as TRUE(), now each subsequent “test” will check for TRUE().
Category: Power BI
Introducing Power Update!
An article on the introduction to Power Update by the experts at P3 Adaptive .
DAX – Dynamic Age Calculation Using Measures
I was recently helping a forum member at https://powerpivotforum.com.au with a problem about how to dynamically calculate an employee’s age.
Displaying Top N, Bottom N, and “All Others”
If We Use Excel’s Built-In Top N Filter to See Our Top 1,000 Customers, It Hides the Other Customers Completely. But Using DAX, We Can Just “Split” the Audience into Two Groups.
DAX – SUM, SUMX or CALCULATE()…Choices, choices!
When I was working recently with a client, helping her remotely – I asked her to calculate the sum for sales amount in the table. She responded whether she should use SUM, SUMX or CALCULATE?
DAX – SUMX of IF: A Perfect Blend of Simple & Sophisticated
In This Case, Getting the Grand Total Correct for Each Row Required SUMX It’s that time of year again… …when my love of spreadsheets actually translates into a love of […]
DAX – The Many Faces of VALUES()
aybe it is a sign of where I am on the Geek Scale compared to Rob, but where he considers EARLIER() to be a pretty hard function to understand, it just doesn’t bother me. At least it seems to have just one purpose in life.
DAX – “CONTAINSX” Revisited: What WAS the Match?
Last week’s post on “CONTAINSX” proved to be quite popular. In the comments, Sasha provided an alternate formula that used FILTER instead of SUMX
DAX – “CONTAINSX” – Finding if a value in table 1 has a matching value in table 2
These are a few of my favorite things… Perhaps the only thing that makes me happier than a new “X” function (I still badly want a CONCATENATEX) is “inventing” a new one (like we’ve seen with PRODUCTX).
“I Modified an Existing Table in Power Query and Now it Won’t Refresh”– A Fix
It’s the same old story, I mashed and twisted some data through Power Query, pulled it through Power Pivot, spent hours creating calculated columns and measures, made a really nice Pivot Table with conditional formatting and all the bells and whistles.
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
P3 Adaptive University Open on Chandoo.org
P3 Adaptive University is the same thing as Chandoo’s Advanced Power Pivot. It’s the exact same content, produced and taught by me, under two different names.