Recently I faced a situation where a simple measure such as COUNTROWS was returning a blank, yeah what's up with that? COUNTROWS...

DAX language of Power BI and SSAS Tabular doesn't have a function for Full Outer Join so in this blog we are going to see a work around...

Recently someone asked a question that whether they should store a column in a Tabular model in String or Integer format and in this...

Have you ever writen a piece of DAX Code that looks like this: and ended up confused how is it able to calculate how many years, days,...

SUM and SUMX are both aggregation functions in DAX. While SUM allows you to aggregate only one Physical column of a table, SUMX is more...

One of the most common time intelligence calculations that I see in each report is that of Previous Year, this calculation is pretty easy...

In this tutorial lets see how easy it is to create a running total in DAX either in SSAS, Power Pivot or Power BI. Running total is a...

One of the very common requirement of Power BI users is that of showing only those measures in a visual which are selected in a slicer....

Out of the box TE doesn't allows you to create Calculated Table in Power BI, but if you want you can easily do that. To be able to create...

In this blog I am going to show you how you can optimize a simple measure involving CROSSJOIN and in the process we are also going to...

In this blog let's see how to compute value of the measure for every other value of a column except for the one that is currently visible...

ADDCOLUMNS is a DAX table function that allows user to add new columns to the existing data. It has 3 main Arguments Table - The table on...

In this blog let's understand the difference between selecting columns in SQL vs DAX, i am using a fairly simple Product table which...

In this article let's understand what Circular Dependency is and how it can cause issues when creating Calculated Columns in a Fact table...

Power BI allows you to create reports easily by bringing columns from multiple tables or from a single table and by putting those columns...

PARALLELPERIOD is a DAX function that allows you to shift MONTH, QUARTER, or YEAR based on the the dates visible in the filter context,...

Creating running totals on a numeric or date field is pretty easy because you always have something that you can use to compare against...

One of a very common requirement that I have seen is to be able to filter out the selection made in the slicer from a visual such as a...

Effective March update of Power BI you can specify different columns in the single filter argument of CALCULATE without writing the...

If there is one thing every DAX developer has ever dreamt about is to be able to view the filter context inside Power BI to debug DAX...

In this blog let’s understand why you should use KEEPFITLERS more often. Below is the snapshot of the data model ( Contoso Retail Data...

Context transition — one of the most complex topics to understand and master but have you ever wondered, what actually happens behind the...

Creating a Running Total is pretty simple in DAX, you just take a measure, wrap it inside CALCULATE and then with the help of DATESYTD...