I have three different tables. I want to select different columns from each of the tables and create one table based on some filters. Have a look at the following dax expression:
FILTER(DISTINCT(SELECTCOLUMNS(Test_Table,"site_key",[site_key],"is_active",[is_active])),[is_active]=TRUE&&[dbsource]=="DB2")
As you can see, I've selected olumns from Test_Table.
Firstly, How can I add columns from the other two tables?
Secondly, please note that these tables are related so I've created a relationship between them based on relevant IDs.
Will I have to create a natural join in DAX as well?
As I mentioned in the comment, SUMMARIZECOLUMNS can probably get you what you're looking for. It might look something like this in your case:
SUMMARIZECOLUMNS (
Test_Table[site_key],
Test_Table_2[industry_group],
Test_Table_2[country],
Test_Table_2[state],
FILTER ( Test_Table, [is_active] = TRUE && [dbsource] = "DB2" )
)
Related
In Power BI, I need to create a VLOOKUP alternative. From the research I've done, this is done with the LOOKUPVALUE function, but the problem is that function needs one specific SEARCH ITEM, which isn't super helpful in a VLOOKUP type scenario where you have a full column of values to search for?
Given these two tables, connected through the user_name and first_name columns:
...what's the formula needed in order to create a new column in the Employee_Table called phone_call_group by using the names as the search items in order to return the group they belong to? So how can I end up with this?
(Forget that the entries in each table are already sorted, needs to be dynamic). Will be back tomorrow to review solutions.
In Power BI you have relations between tables instead of Excel's VLOOKUP function.
In your case you just have to create a one-to-one relation between
'Phone_Call_Table'[user_name] and 'Employee_Table'['first_name]'
With that you can add a Calculated Column to your 'Employee_Table' using the following expression:
phone_call_group = RELATED(Phone_Call_Table[group])
and in the data view the table will look like this:
LOOKUPVALUE() is just a workaround if for other reasons you can't establish that relation. What you've been missing so far is that in a Calculated Column there is a Row Context which gives you exactly one value per row for the <search_value> (this is different from Measures):
alt_phone_call_group =
LOOKUPVALUE(
Phone_Call_Table[group],
Phone_Call_Table[user_name],
Employee_Table[first_name]
)
I have what I believe is a simple problem in Power BI, but I'm having trouble solving it.
I have a model with three tables, tbCalendar, tbFiles and tbCategory.
Both the tbCalendar and tbCategory tables have a relationship with tbFiles. tbCalendar's relationship with tbFiles is a many-to-many relationship in a column they both have called "Date" and between tbCategory and tbFiles is a one-to-many relationship made through a column called "Category".
I want to create a measure that makes a distinct count of a column called "KeyCod" of tbFiles where some values are repeated. But I want this measure to ignore all the filters I created except one, the "Date" column filter of tbCategory table to reuse this result in other solutions in my model.
So far I've tried in a few ways, but I haven't gotten the result I need. Could someone help me with this please?
My current measure is:
CountKeyCodRows =
VAR TotalRows = DISTINCTCOUNT(tbFiles[KeyCod])
RETURN CALCULATE(TotalRows,ALLSELECTED(tbCalendar))
Replace ALLSELECTED with ALLEXCEPT
CountKeyCodRows =
VAR TotalRows = DISTINCTCOUNT(tbFiles[KeyCod])
RETURN CALCULATE(TotalRows,ALLEXCEPT(tbCalendar))
I am trying to understand the below DAX code:
CALCULATE(
SUM(Revenue[Net])
,FILTER('Center', NOT 'Center'[Acc] IN {"RSM", BLANK() })
,ALLSELECTED()
,VALUES('Customer'[Customer Number])
)
I have the below questions:
What's the use of ALLSELECTED?? By definition ALLSELECTED returns all rows in a table, ignoring any filters that might have been applied inside the query, but keeping filters that come from outside. https://dax.guide/allselected/
So, what's the point of writing FILTER() if its going to be forced to be ignored by the next line (ALLSELECTED)?!?
Also by definition:
CALCULATE is just a expresion followed by filters...
What's the use of VALUES() ? It doesn't appear to be a filter, so how is it even allowed to appear there? (Per definition VALUES(): returns a one-column table that contains the distinct values from the specified column.)
I do not understand what is this returning? is it the SUM() or the VALUES()?
(I come from a SQL background, so any sql-friendly answer is appreciated).
In Dax every filter is a table of values its look similar to INNER JOIN;
ALLSELECTED is useful when you need to keep a row context (this is also a filter in DAX). You can use ALLSELECTED inside FILTER function.
For better understand what engine does you can use a DaxStudio with ServerTiming;
As you see this product one simple statement:
SELECT
SUM ( 'Table'[Cost Centre] )
FROM 'Table'
WHERE
'Table'[Project] NIN ( 'AB' ) ;
You can find useful article by Alberto Ferrari and Marco Russo:
https://www.sqlbi.com/tv/auto-exist-on-clusters-or-numbers-unplugged-22/
If it is only converting DAX queries if your connecting your sql analysis services to in DAX studio. because it is not working for PBI file data
I am using DAX Studio and I would like to add a filter to the table field in SELECTCOLUMNS so that it using two different table depending on the filter's expression result.
In other words what I would like to do is similar to the following :
DEFINE
VAR cond_talble =
SELECTCOLUMNS(
IF(#param1="1",TABLE1,TABLE2),
"column1",[column1],
"column2",[column2]
)
Thank you kindly
there is a work around for this problem but might not be a good one for everyone, and it's to add a column in both tables containing a boolean that is set to true for table1 and 0 for table2 and then (if your trables contains the same columns like me) get a table that is the fruit of the union of both tables and add an if condition on a filter so that you filter with the added column
I want to create an application that uses Extended Events to analyze the usage of Azure Analysis Services models.
Specifically, I want to know what measures and dimensions the end users are using.
I look at the QueryEnd event and try to parse the TextData field. Depending on the tool used for querying the model I get either MDX or DAX in the TextData.
I think I have managed to parse the MDX with this RegEx: ([[\w ]+].[[\w ]+](?:.(?:Members|[Q\d]))?)
(from this post: Regular expression for extracting element from MDX Query)
Now parsing the DAX is the problem. If I query the model from fx PowerBI I get a DAX like this:
EVALUATE
TOPN(
502,
SUMMARIZECOLUMNS(
ROLLUPADDISSUBTOTAL('Product'[Color], \"IsGrandTotalRowTotal\"),
\"Order_Count\", 'SalesOrderDetail'[Order Count]
),
[IsGrandTotalRowTotal],
0,
[Order_Count],
0,
'Product'[Color],
1
)
ORDER BY
[IsGrandTotalRowTotal] DESC, [Order_Count] DESC, 'Product'[Color]
What I would like to match with the RegEx is:
'Product'[Color] and 'SalesOrderDetail'[Order Count]
And.... how would i know that Order Count is used as a measyre while Color is an attribute of the Product dimension?..... guess I won't?
Thanx a lot
Nicolaj
think I just found a possible solution for parsing both DAX and MDX queries:
([\[\'][\w ]+[\]\']\.?[\[\'][\w ]+[\]\'])(?!.*\1)
This will give me what I need.... without duplicates. Improvements are welcomed :-)
For disambiguating columns from measures, I would query the DMVs for the deployed model to get a list of columns and a list of measures. Then you can just look up your parsed tokens in the two lists:
DMV docs
Column DMV
Measure DMV.
Note that measure names are globally unique among the population of column and measure names, so that is an easy lookup (just throw away the table reference). Column names are only unique within the table they belong to.
It looks like you've already got a regex that's working for you, so run with that.
I'll also note that almost all PBI visuals which are returning anything other than a simple list (e.g. slicers or one column tables will return just a list) will follow the pattern of the query you shared.
Measures should all be in later args to SUMMARIZECOLUMNS. The pattern is:
SUMMARIZECOLUMNS (
<grouping columns, optionally in a ROLLUPADDISSUBTOTAL>,
<filters, defined above in VARs>,
<measures as ("Alias", [Measure]) pairs>
)