The Antares Alien

Power BI | Game Development

Blarg! Here, I write about Power BI stuff in a fun and unique way. I also occasionally write about video game development. Thanks for checking out my blog!

Brent Jones

Nov 19

SQLBI Mastering DAX Workshop Review

I recently had the pleasure of attending SQLBI's 3 day Mastering DAX Workshop. Read on below for my thoughts!

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Brent Jones

Oct 30

Calculation Groups in Power BI Desktop

Calculation groups can now be authored directly in Power BI desktop!

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Do You Need Relationships For Power BI? A Look Into The Disconnected Model Paradigm.

Brent Jones

Aug 20

Do You Need Relationships For Power BI? A Look Into The Disconnected Model Paradigm.

This may be blasphemous to even ask, but... do you really need to join your tables in the first place?

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The Best Guide to FILTER() and CALCULATETABLE() Differences

Brent Jones

Mar 18

The Best Guide to FILTER() and CALCULATETABLE() Differences

In this article, I clearly layout the differences when using FILTER or CALCULATE TABLE.

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Calculating Business Days and Hours Between Two Dates (DAX)

Brent Jones

Oct 6, 2022

Calculating Business Days and Hours Between Two Dates (DAX)

Power BI DAX has a function called "NETWORKDAYS()". However it does not calculate hours. If you need to calculate hours, you can use this...

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Power BI: How to show different date calculations on the same date axis.

Brent Jones

Nov 16, 2021

Power BI: How to show different date calculations on the same date axis.

Let's say you have a ticketing system and you want to show a count of tickets based on their created date and also on their completed date.

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