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What are the best practices in Power BI?
How to Make Power BI Faster
- Limit the number of visuals in dashboards and reports.
- Remove unnecessary interactions between visuals.
- Use on-premises data gateway instead of Personal Gateway.
- Use separate gateways for Power BI service live connection and scheduled data refresh.
- Test custom visual performance before use.
How do I get the most out of Power BI?
Here are a few tips for dashboards.
- Dashboard design best practices video.
- Consider your audience.
- Tell a story on one screen.
- Make use of full screen mode.
- Accent the most important information.
- Place the most important information.
- Use the right visualization for the data.
- Learn more about dashboard design.
What are the basics needed for using Power BI?
The five major building blocks of Power BI are: dashboards, reports, workbooks, datasets, and dataflows. They’re all organized into workspaces, and they’re created on capacities. It’s important to understand capacities and workspaces before we dig into the five building blocks, so let’s start there.
How can I improve my DAX performance?
Improving DAX Syntax
- Use DAX Formatter to format your code.
- Use the DISTINCT() and VALUES() functions consistently.
- Add column and measure references in your DAX expressions.
What is DAX language?
Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) is a programming language that is used throughout Microsoft Power BI for creating calculated columns, measures, and custom tables. It is a collection of functions, operators, and constants that can be used in a formula, or expression, to calculate and return one or more values.
How do I find blank values in DAX?
How to check blank and empty value in dax
- Return Type =
- var vTxt = IF(ISEMPTY(CALCULATETABLE(SAVO_QBR_TEMP, SAVO_QBR_TEMP[Return_Type]<>BLANK()))=False, SAVO_QBR_TEMP[Return_Type], “NULL”)
- return IF(vTxt<>”NULL” && not ISBLANK(SAVO_QBR_TEMP[Return_Type]), SAVO_QBR_TEMP[Return_Type])
- and My values are showing as below:
What is xmSQL?
xmSQL is a “read-only” SQL-like language which exists as a textual representation of the operations that the Tabular storage engine is performing. It is not a query language that you can execute. It exists so that you can get an understanding of the operations that are being performed during storage engine scans.
What is M language?
M is informal name of Power Query Formula Language. The formal name is so long that no one uses that, everyone call it M! M stands for Data Mashup, some say stands for Data Modeling. M is a functional language, and it is important to know functions of it.
What is null in DAX?
Any column data type in DAX can have a blank value. This is the value assigned to a column when the data source contains a NULL value. You can replace the call to the BLANK function with any DAX expression returning a blank value, including a column reference.
How do you replace blanks with 0 in DAX?
If you want is to replace blank or null values with 0 without creating a new column, then use the Query Editor.
- Select Edit Query.
- In the query window, right click on the column header and select Replace Values…
How do you optimize DAX?
Optimizing DAX Functions
- Use ISBLANK() instead of =Blank() check.
- Use = 0 instead of checking for ISBLANK() || = 0.
- Use SELECTEDVALUE() instead of HASONEVALUE()
- Use SELECTEDVALUE() instead of VALUES()
- Use variables instead of repeating measures inside the IF branch.
- Use DIVIDE() instead of /