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DAX Cookbook

You're reading from DAX Cookbook Over 120 recipes to enhance your business with analytics, reporting, and business intelligence

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839217074

Length 552 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

DAX

Tools

Excel

Concepts

Business Intelligence

Author (1):

Greg Deckler

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Thinking in DAX

2. Dealing with Dates and Calendars FREE CHAPTER

3. Tangling with Time and Duration

4. Transforming Text and Numbers

5. Figuring Financial Rates and Revenues

6. Computing Customer KPIs

7. Evaluating Employment Measures

8. Processing Project Performance

9. Calculating Common Industry Metrics

10. Using Uncommon DAX Patterns

11. Solving Statistical and Mathematical Formulas

12. Applying Advanced DAX Patterns

13. Debugging and Optimizing DAX

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Constructing timetables

Just as having a date table can be extremely useful for various data models and DAX calculations, timetables can be equally useful. However, while DAX has various functions for easily creating date tables such as CALENDAR and CALENDARAUTO, no such equivalent exists for timetables. This recipe fixes that enables you to create timetables with ease!

Getting ready

Just open Power BI Desktop and you are all set.

How to do it...

To implement this recipe, do the following:

Create a new table with the following formula:

R01_12-Hour_Clock = 
    VAR __hours...

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Authors (1)

Greg Deckler

Greg Deckler

Greg Deckler is a 7-time Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and an active blogger and Power BI community member, having written over 6,000 solutions to community questions. Greg has authored many books on Power BI, including Learn Power BI 1st and 2nd Editions, DAX Cookbook, Power BI Cookbook 2nd Edition and Mastering Power BI 2nd Edition. Greg has also created several external tools for Power BI and regularly posts video content to his YouTube channels, Microsoft Hates Greg and DAX For Humans.

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