Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Analysis Services, DAX, M, MDX, Power Query, Power Pivot and Excel Sales Amount = SUM ( 'Internet Sales'[SalesAmount] ) YTD Sales Amount = CALCULATE ( [Sales Amount], ...

One of the most common errors you’ll see when working with Power Query in Power BI or Excel is this: It can occur with almost any data source and in a wide variety of different circumstances, and for ...

If you missed out on the big announcement last week about Tabular Model Definition Language and the future of Power BI version control at SQLBits last week, then the recording of the session has ...

One of the most confusing, under-documented and widely-misunderstood features of Power BI and Power Query (or Excel “Get & Transform” or whatever you want to call it) are the data privacy settings. I ...

If you’ve heard about the new Direct Lake mode for Power BI datasets in Fabric you’ll know that it gives you the query performance of Import mode (well, almost) without the need to actually import any ...

One very common requirement when creating a Power BI report is the ability to apply a filter for the current day, week, month, quarter or year. There are several ways of implementing this: you could ...

You probably know that semantic models in Power BI can use a fixed amount of memory. This is true of all types of semantic model – Import, Direct Lake and DirectQuery – but it’s not something you ...

I don’t usually like to blog about topics that I think other people have blogged about already, but despite the fact that Mosha blogged about this several years ago (in fact more than eight years ago, ...

Maybe the fourth- or fifth-most exciting Power BI-related announcement last month (admittedly it was an exciting month) was that Log Analytics for Power BI datasets is now GA and you can now link ...