Business Intelligence Architect, Analysis Services Maestro, and author Bill Pearson introduces two DAX Time Intelligence functions related to the Date: FIRSTDATE(), and LASTDATE(). He discusses the syntax, uses and operation of each function, and then provides hands-on exposure to it in Power BI.
2023-03-01
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Automated testing is a way to ensure you can repeatedly examine your code as you make changes by running a series of tests. Since these are automated, you have the ability to execute all tests with one programmatic call rather than hoping a developer runs all tests. This also allows the effort of writing tests […]
2023-02-22
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Business Intelligence Architect, Analysis Services Maestro, and author Bill Pearson introduces five DAX Time Intelligence functions related to Dates: DATESBETWEEN(), DATESINPERIOD(), DATESMTD(), DATESQTD(), and DATESYTD(). He discusses the syntax, uses and operation of each, and then provides hands-on exposure to the functions in Power BI.
2023-02-14 (first published: 2022-11-02)
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Learn how you can query for patterns in the Abstract Syntax Tree to analyze your code.
2023-02-22 (first published: 2022-06-08)
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In this level of the Stairway to ScriptDOM, we examine the way the tool parses scripts and creates tokens from the text.
2023-02-22 (first published: 2022-04-13)
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Get an introduction to the Stairway Series and learn about the power of the ScriptDOM library.
2023-02-22 (first published: 2022-03-09)
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2023-02-22 (first published: 2022-02-28)
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Learn how you can configure a Snowflake account in your cloud database and load data.
2021-12-01
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Business Intelligence Architect, Analysis Services Maestro, and author Bill Pearson introduces the DAX DATEADD() function, discussing its syntax, uses and operation. He then provides hands-on exposure to DATEADD(), focusing largely upon a popular use in creating prior-period values at multiple Date hierarchy levels.
2023-02-14 (first published: 2021-06-04)
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In this next level of the Stairway to Snowflake, we look at the considerations for creating an account and how to set one up.
2021-06-09 (first published: 2021-05-24)
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