The XMLA endpoint term is still too technical for many Power BI report developers. Many people come to me asking what exactly is XMLA endpoint, and what are the benefits of it. What it can do? or most importantly; as a report developer, why should I care? Well, I will answer all of these questions Read more about What Is the XMLA Endpoint for Power BI and Why Should I Care?[…]
Power BI is not only a solution for small datasets, but It also caters for big datasets. If the volume of data is huge, you can switch to DirectQuery mode. Because DirectQuery does not store a copy of that data in the memory of the machine that runs the Power BI model, then Power BI Read more about Power BI Fast and Furious with Aggregations[…]
It is common that you face a status table in your data analysis scenarios. A status table normally has a column for the status of the items and the date of status change. This type of table, although informative, can be hard for analyzing data. In this article and video, I’ll explain why it is Read more about Power BI Modeling: Change the Status Log Table to a From-To Table[…]
One of the common patterns in Power BI is to have a table with different statuses throughout time and then wanting to get the latest status up to a selected date. A simple example of that is to have a table with position(role) changes of employees and then wanting to see their latest position based Read more about Power BI HR Pattern: DAX Measures for the Last Position to Date: Last Status to Date[…]
Power BI hierarchies are a useful structure for drill-down and data exploration in reports. A hierarchy can be created simply and can add great value for you as a developer and end-users for better data analysis. In this article and video, I’ll explain what a Power BI hierarchy is and how to create it. Video Read more about What a Power BI Hierarchy Is, and How to Use it?[…]
Relationships are the heart of Power BI modeling, and Power BI Desktop has a way to help and identify the relationships based on the source, or the data. However, often, this ability to automatically detect a relationship is more troublesome than helping, especially when you deal with tables that are not designed for reporting. In Read more about Power BI Design Tip: Disable the Auto-Detect Relationship[…]
One of the common patterns of a data model is the subscription pattern. In this pattern, we have subscriptions (or tickets, or issues, or whatever else you want to call it) open date and close date. The way that this data is stored in a table makes it a bit challenging to get informative insight Read more about Subscription Pattern in Power BI – DAX Measure for Active Subscribers or Open Tickets For All Dates[…]
You don’t have always the luxury of having a snapshot fact table that has the stock on hand value for every single day, at every single workshop, and for every single product. Even if you want to build such a table, it can get easily gigantic. In this blog post, I am going to show Read more about Calculating Stock on Hand Using DAX: Power BI Inventory Model[…]
I have written dozens of articles about row-level security so far and explained in all of them explained different methods in which you can reduce the amount of data rows that a user can see based on their roles. However, in my presentations, I still get this question that: What if I want to compare Read more about Calculating Total, and Percentages in a Row-Level Security Power BI Model[…]
I have written previously about what is a fact table, and what is the dimension table, and how they relate to each other in a Power BI data model. However, still I see when people use these tables in their model, they get ambiguity of what table should be used for what, and if they Read more about Why My Values are Not Showing Correctly in Power BI?[…]