Video by: Reid Havens
Walk through a client case-study with me as I identify and optimize repeating DAX patterns. The end result having less lines of code, simpler logic, and faster performance. Tune in to learn more!
Video by: Reid Havens
Walk through a client case-study with me as I identify and optimize repeating DAX patterns. The end result having less lines of code, simpler logic, and faster performance. Tune in to learn more!
Despite being usually very fast, DAX can be optimized, like any other computer system. Optimizing DAX requires a deeper understanding of the internals of the engine, because most optimizations are not intuitive. We will talk about the basics of optimizations, looking at some examples of code and discussing together ideas and options to make the code faster.
Alberto started working with SQL Server in 2000 and immediately his interest focused on Business Intelligence. He and Marco Russo created sqlbi.com, where they publish extensive content about Business Intelligence.
Alberto published several books about Analysis Services, Power BI, and Power Pivot. He is a Microsoft MVP and he earned the SSAS Maestro title, the highest level of certification on Microsoft Analysis Services technology.
Today, Alberto's main activities are in the delivery of DAX and data modeling workshops for Power BI and Analysis Services all around the world. Alberto offers consulting services on large and complex data warehouses to provide assessments and validation of project analysis or to perform specific problem-solving activities.
Alberto is a well-known speaker at many international conferences, like PASS Summit, Sqlbits, and Microsoft Ignite. He loves to be on stage both at large events and at smaller user groups meetings, exchanging ideas with other SQL and BI fans. When traveling for work, he likes to engage with local user groups to provide evening sessions about his favorite topics. Thus, you can easily meet Alberto by looking up local Power BI user groups during scheduled courses.
Outside of SQLBI, most of Alberto's personal time is spent practicing video games, in the vain hope of eventually beating his son.
Article by: Reid Havens
Today’s topic covers how to create a Disconnected Slicer using DAX Variables and SELECTEDVALUES. We’ve easily written a few dozen articles over the years on ways to use disconnected slicers, and here’s another one!
The great thing about DAX is that as it EVOLVES, writing measures and utilizing certain features becomes easier. That’s the goal of this video, it’s not re-inventing the wheel, just refining it. I’ve included below the original DAX Formula I used in the walkthrough. Otherwise, enjoy the video!
Signup for our mailing list to gain access to Power BI files and templates from the videos. You’ll receive a welcome email with a link and password to the Blog Files page.
Reid Havens’ early love affair with analytics has, over the past decade, turned into an evolution into data visualization and report design in Power BI.
Since then Reid has been writing articles and creating YouTube videos to share the word of BI, helping to inspire the next generation of Business Intelligence enthusiasts.