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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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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 working days for weeks, months, quarters, and years

Finding the first and last days of a month in DAX is fairly straightforward. The starting day of a month is always 1 and DAX includes a handy EOMONTH function to return the last day of a month. Similarly, finding the first and last days of a year is extremely straightforward considering that years always begin on January 1 and end on December 31. Nevertheless, things become trickier when attempting to find the first and last day of a week and become much, much trickier when trying to identify the first working day of a week, month, or year.

However, since most businesses have the concept of a work week that includes work days and non-work days, it is often important to be able to identify the first and last working days of weeks, months, and years. Luckily, this recipe shows exactly how to accomplish finding the first...

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DAX Cookbook
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ISBN-13: 9781839217074
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