Create a DAX Date Table/ Calendar within Power BI | A Simple and POWERFUL Guide!
In this quick tutorial, I'll demonstrate how we can create a Power BI Date Table/ Calendar using DAX. This will be essential for future time intelligence functions and comparing data over certain time periods. This is a core component of making Data Driven Decisions! I try to break this down with simple & clear explanations.
We'll cover:
- Why do we need a Date Table?
- DAX CALENDARAUTO & CALENDAR
- Digesting the Microsoft Date Table DAX documentation
- Creating a simple, automatic Date Table
- Using ADDCOLUMNS & CALENDAR to create a Date Table with added columns such as 'Month Name', 'Day of Week', 'Quarter' & 'Year'
- Adding shortened and full length Month naming conventions
-Best practices for structuring DAX code
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