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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839217074
Length 552 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Greg Deckler Greg Deckler
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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

Finding childless nodes

DAX has a number of parent-child functions, including PATH, PATHCONTAINS, PATHITEM, PATHITEMREVERSE, and PATHLENGTH. These functions help us analyze data presented in the format of a parent-child hierarchy. While the parent-child functions help us determine such things as the entire lineage of rows of parent-child hierarchy data, the number of levels within a hierarchy, and who is the nth level down in the hierarchy, there is some useful functionality that is not included. For example, it can be useful to know the top and bottom levels of the hierarchy or, essentially, where hierarchies begin and end. Determining the top level of a hierarchy is very easy: we simply need to filter for the row or rows that have no parent. However, finding the bottom of the hierarchy, nodes that have no children, is somewhat more difficult since these may occur at any level...

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