2019-10-03
1,238 reads
DAX
Adding a dynamic ColumnId to a DAX Calculated Table
Learn how a calculated value can be added to a table with the missing key values filled in.
2019-10-01
1,942 reads
Getting Prior Year’s Year-To-Date with DAX
Kasper de Jonge takes a look at how to calculate a prior year’s year-to-date over the same period as the current year: Well maybe.. what happens here is that...
2019-05-13
DAX Calculations with Invalid Boolean Predicates
Eugene Meidinger takes us through a DAX error: Whenever you start trying to use more complicated filters in the CALCULATE or CALCULATETABLE functions in DAX, you may start to get the following error:...
2019-04-17
Using the DAX Calculate and Values Functions
In the first two articles in this series on creating DAX formulae, Andy Brown of Wise Owl Training showed how to create calculated columns and measures. In this third article, he turns his attention to two of the most important DAX functions (CALCULATE and VALUES), showing how and when to use them. If DAX knowledge can be compared to a heavily fortified castle, the CALCULATE function is the drawbridge giving access to it.
2019-02-18
2,279 reads
Creating Measures Using DAX
In the first article in this series, Andy Brown demonstrated how to create calculated columns in Power BI using the DAX language. This second article in the series explains what measures are, and how you can use DAX to create measures within Power BI. The formulae in the article apply equally well to PowerPivot and Analysis Services Tabular Model.
2019-01-21
2,447 reads
Calculating Employee Attrition with DAX – Part 2
In part 1, we described the requirements for calculating attrition and also demonstrated one method that doesn’t rely on writing DAX code at all. In the second part of this tip, we introduce alternative methods of creating a calculation in DAX to calculate the number of employees that have left the company.
2018-05-16
2,619 reads
Calculating Employee Attrition Rate with DAX – Part 1
In many businesses, the HR department needs reports on the employee attrition. This is the number of people that leave the company (depending on the reason they leave; the terminology can also be dismissals or turnover). Suppose you have a table with your employee data, where you also store a possible termination date. How do you calculate the number of people who have left the company using the DAX query language?
2018-05-15
2,702 reads
Non-Numeric Measures in DAX
Enhance the functionality of your SSAS Tabular and PowerBI output, by understanding HOW-, WHY- and WHEN to leverage the power of DAX to create text, date or Boolean measures.
2016-12-06
10,792 reads
New DAX functions in SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 comes with several new features including new DAX functions to enrich the functionality, Daniel Calbimonte takes a look.
2016-01-08
4,503 reads
Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
Forums
Split Large Queries in Athena with a Simple Modulo Trick
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Finding Trailing Spaces
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Question of the Day
Finding Trailing Spaces
I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:
CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName 1 Steve Steve 2 Andy Andy 3 Brian Brian 4 Allan Allan 5 Devin Devin 6 Steve Steve 7 Sally SallyI want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT
CustomerID,
CustomerName,
PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName); See possible answers