There are many different ways you can create aggregations in Power BI, You can do it in the source (using the database t-SQL language), or using Group By operation in Power Query. You can also do it in DAX using some functions. One of the functions that can be used for grouping and aggregation is Read more about Aggregated Table in Power BI – Using GroupBy Function in DAX[…]
I have explained previously that you can use GenerateSeries function in DAX to create a list of number, date or time, or even currency values. However, sometimes you might need to create a list of text values. Such as alphabet; from “a” to “z” lowercase, or uppercase. The good news is that you can do Read more about Create a Table with A to Z Character Values in Power BI Using DAX[…]
Previously, to create page navigation in Power BI, you needed to create bookmarks, and buttons to action to that bookmark. However, recently, in the last version of Power BI Desktop, the ability to easily navigate to other pages using Buttons in announced. In this short article, I’ll explain how you can use this approach to Read more about Page Navigation Buttons in Power BI[…]
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[…]
In the previous article/video, I explained how to create dynamic bins by choosing the count of bins in a slicer in the Power BI report. In this article, I’ll explain, how you can do it the other way around, which is by selecting the size of the bin, you will have bins and buckets dynamically Read more about Dynamic Banding or Grouping in Power BI – Using DAX Measures – Choose the Size of Bins[…]
Banding (or binning or grouping) is a scenario that can be implemented both statically and dynamically in Power BI. Dynamic banding means selecting the bin (or band) configuration, and the banding changes based on the user selection of the slicer. Imagine that we have a count of customers by their age groups, but then we Read more about Dynamic Banding or Grouping in Power BI – Using DAX Measures – Choose the Count of Bins[…]
One of the most common types of banding or binning is banding based on a range. Let’s say, for example, you want to have a group of customers based on their age group. The age group banding can be created in Power Query at the data transformation stage. It can be created using the Grouping Read more about Age Banding in Power BI Using TREATAS DAX Function – Relationship Based on Between[…]
TreatAs is helpful for filtering, and it doesn’t filter only based on one column, it can filter based on as many as columns you want. One of the challenges in Power BI relationships is creating a relationship based on multiple fields, I have previously explained a method you can use to create a compound key Read more about Creating Relationship Based on Multiple Fields in Power BI Using TREATAS DAX Function[…]
TreatAs is an interesting function with multiple use cases in Power BI. I thought it is good to explain it in a set of articles, the first one here is about what the TreatAs function is and how it can help to build filters and a virtual relationship between two tables. Let’s see how you Read more about Building a Virtual Relationship in Power BI – Basics of TREATAS DAX Function[…]
The scenario I am explaining today is a very specific use case, However, I have seen examples similar to this happens very often. It happens that you get a text or Excel file with values written in a flat list structure, and that needs to be changed to a table format. Usually, this process can Read more about Convert Flat List to Table in Power BI; Pivot Without a Set Key Column Using Power Query[…]