How to Sort String Date Values on a Power BI Slicer Visual
In this article, we look at how to build a slicer visual in Power BI and how to create a custom sort order for the slicer values.
2024-06-10
Power BI
PowerBI premium capacity administration: dataset monitoring and tuning
Over the years Power BI has evolved into a complex and varied ecosystem of tools and solutions, which in its turn demands several supporting roles: there are, of course, developers, data engineers and data scientists, but there is need for one more, i.e. a capacity administrator.
2024-06-05
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Identifying Customer Buying Pattern in Power BI - Part 2
In this article, we develop the Power BI DAX formula for basket analysis. It is the technique used in retail industry for market based analysis.
2024-05-10
1,505 reads
Identifying Customer Buying Pattern in Power BI - Part 1
In this article, we discuss market-based analysis techniques for customer purchasing patterns for different products over the years in Power BI.
2024-04-19
2,033 reads
Dynamically Create Tables in Power BI with DAX Functions
Learn about DAX functions to use in Power BI ADDCOLUMNS, CROSSJOIN, VALUES, SUMMARIZE, GENERATE, CALENDAR, FILTER, TOPN, UNION, and NATURALINNERJOIN.
2024-02-21
Scientific Calculations in Power BI - Cube, Square, Logarithms, Powers, Inverse and more
Microsoft Power BI Desktop provides users with multiple ways to help shape and transform their data. One of the options users have is scientific calculations, which support operations like cube, square, logarithms, etc. Power BI has this option in the Power Query Editor mode, where the user can easily apply one of these transformations for any number-based columns. In this tip, we will overview this utility in Power BI and how to benefit from it.
2024-02-14
Level 27: Time Intelligence – Dates Functions: The DAX “Parallel Period” and “Same Period Last Year” Functions
Business Intelligence Architect, “Analysis Services Maestro, and author Bill Pearson introduces two somewhat similar DAX Time Intelligence functions related to “parallel” Date periods: PARALLELPERIOD() and SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR(). He discusses the syntax, uses and operation of each function, and then provides hands-on exposure to it in Power BI.
2024-01-24
1,315 reads
New Power BI Explore this Data Feature: An Alternative to Excel Pivot Tables
Learn how to pivot and analyze data in Power BI like you can do in Excel for fast and easy data analysis.
2024-01-05
Most Overlooked Features in Power BI
Learn about some of the overlooked but extremely useful features when building Power BI reports and dashboards.
2023-12-27
Building Reports with Power BI vs Tableau from SQL Server Data
Learn about Power BI vs Tableau reporting comparison with SQL Server data to see the query differences when retrieving data.
2023-12-25
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Internal Checkpoints
Certain internal SQL Server actions cause internal checkpoints. Which of these actions does not cause an internal checkpoint?
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