Data modelling and DAX
Introduction For this blog, I look at a method to take some text in the form of a horizontal sentence and use DAX to pivot the text into a vertical list of words. The PBIX file for this exercise can is available here. There is no current native function in DAX that can take a … Continue reading DAX : Pivot Text into a List of Words
I wrote a blog back in 2017 on how to better organise your measures in Power BI. One thing that bothered me at the time was I wasn’t able to give the measure table the one name I truly wanted. The perfect name for a measure table is, of course, Measures. Unfortunately, this is a … Continue reading A measure table called “Measures”
I received an email recently asking for help with an interesting DAX question. The person was trying to get a DAX query working using the undocumented TOPNSKIP function to return a table of data that didn’t include the first N rows. The function syntax is as follows : TOPNSKIP ( <Rows>, <Skip>, <Table> [, <OrderByExpression> … Continue reading TopNSkip Alternative
I read a quote somewhere along the lines of… If you are trying to solve a problem with regular expressions… you now have two problems This seems a little harsh for a useful tool that has been with us for what seems a very long time. Plenty of languages offer support for RegEx string searching … Continue reading Power BI and Regular Expressions