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Running Totals Without a Traditional Calendar Table
PowerPivot provides a host of great functions like DATESYTD, DATESMTD, DATESBETWEEN, etc. that are useful for calculating many things, including a running total. But with the exception of DATESBETWEEN,...
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The Greatest Formula in the World, Part One
“Play Write the greatest song formula in the world, or I’ll eat your souls.”-From “Tribute,” by Tenacious DAX A Do-It-Yourself Time Machine You remember the Great Precedence Project? Well, I have...
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The Great Precedence Project (Filter Rules for DAX)
“Wait a minute. There might be legal precedent. Of course. Land snatching. Let’s see, land, la-land…see snatch. snatch…snatch…ah! Haley vs. United states. Haley 7, United States nothing. You see, it...
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Precedence Project Part Two: VALUES()
OK, picking up from part one… Let’s start with a simplified version of last post’s pivot – remove one of the row fields, and all of the measures but the base Total Sales measure: Now let’s add a...
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Precedence Part 3: ALLEXCEPT vs. ALL w/ VALUES
“However… you do have ALL() the characteristics of a dog, Gary. ALLEXCEPT() loyalty…” This will be a quick one. I think. In part two, we left off with the observation that VALUES() can...
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The GFITW “Loses” an ALL()
Yes, We’ve Seen This Image Before and I Am Sure We Will See it Again Jump in the Wayback Machine… In the Spring of 2011, I dove into a Power Pivot project that I thought was going to be simple, but...
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Becoming one with CALCULATE()
Guest Post by Scott Senkeresty Intro from Rob Hey, it starts out simple and powerful: CALCULATE is the SUMIF you always wished you’d had. It works in pivots. It’s the “anything IF.” It’s amazing,...
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“Play Write the greatest song formula in the world, or I’ll eat your souls.” -From “Tribute,” by Tenacious DAX A Do-It-Yourself Time Machine You remember the Great Precedence Project? Well, I have...
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Yes, We’ve Seen This Image Before and I Am Sure We Will See it Again Jump in the Wayback Machine… In the Spring of 2011, I dove into a Power Pivot project that I thought was going to be simple, but...
View ArticleDAX – Becoming one with CALCULATE()
Guest Post by Scott Senkeresty Intro from Rob Hey, it starts out simple and powerful: CALCULATE is the SUMIF you always wished you’d had. It works in pivots. It’s the “anything IF.” It’s amazing,...
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