Antriksh Sharma
Performance penalty of Measures in Filters Pane in Power BI
In this blog let's take a look at the performance of a report when you use a Measure in the Filter Pane. Let's say you have a data model...
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Antriksh Sharma
- Mar 10
- 7 min
Getting started with Aggregations in Power BI - Part 1
In this article let's take a look at how to get started with aggregations feature in Power BI. I will try to explain aggregations in a...
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Antriksh Sharma
- Dec 20, 2021
- 2 min
Storing a column as String or Integer in Analysis Services
Recently someone asked a question that whether they should store a column in a Tabular model in String or Integer format and in this...
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Antriksh Sharma
- Nov 18, 2021
- 4 min
Dependency of a function on Row Context in DAX
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,...
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Antriksh Sharma
- Sep 26, 2021
- 3 min
How to extract measures from Power BI to Excel or Text file?
A very common scenario in Power BI is of extracting measure into text file and then loading them back again in the Power BI file so that...
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Antriksh Sharma
- Sep 1, 2021
- 4 min
SUM vs SUMX in DAX
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...
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Antriksh Sharma
- Jul 23, 2021
- 2 min
How to Load Data From Power BI into SQL Server?
Whenever I work with LinkedIn data challenges a very common task for me is to load data into SQL Server as modifying the data in SQL is...
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Antriksh Sharma
- May 29, 2021
- 5 min
Optimizing calculations involving CROSSJOIN in DAX for Power BI, Power Pivot and SSAS.
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...
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Antriksh Sharma
- May 7, 2021
- 1 min
SQL to DAX: Select/Project Columns
In this blog let's understand the difference between selecting columns in SQL vs DAX, i am using a fairly simple Product table which...
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Antriksh Sharma
- May 4, 2021
- 4 min
Circular Dependency between Calculated Columns in a Table in DAX
In this article let's understand what Circular Dependency is and how it can cause issues when creating Calculated Columns in a Fact table...
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Antriksh Sharma
- May 2, 2021
- 4 min
Why you shouldn't add a 0 at the end of a DAX code
Power BI allows you to create reports easily by bringing columns from multiple tables or from a single table and by putting those columns...
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Antriksh Sharma
- Apr 9, 2021
- 7 min
How To Exclude Slicer Selection from the result with DAX in Power BI
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...
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Antriksh Sharma
- Mar 1, 2021
- 1 min
Power BI: Visualizing Filter context
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...
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Antriksh Sharma
- Feb 10, 2021
- 2 min
DAX Studio: Building Queries Manually (Using UI)
Since June 2020 a new feature has been introduced in DAX Studio https://daxstudio.org/ that allows you to design queries using the UI,...
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