Model Explorer

You have probably noticed that in Power BI service Datasets have recently been replaced by Semantic Models. Model Explorer is a new feature of Power BI Desktop. It is located in the Model view, and enables views and work with complex semantic models that contain tables, relations, measures, roles, calculation groups, cultures, perspectives…

Differences between tables

In your day-to-day work, many of you copy data from a company’s business information system or some spreadsheet where they are exported to create the necessary reports. The problem arises when the data changes. How to trace where the change occurred? What is the difference between a source and a derived table? In the text that follows, you will see how to use the INDEX and MATCH functions, as well as the conditional formatting technique, to highlight the differences between the tables.

DAX table generating functions

DAX is a language that comes in several flavors. While most features are available at the same time for Excel, Power BI and SQL Server Analysis Services some of them are platform-specific. Because Power BI has the ability to generate tables and there are DAX functions that, as a result, return tables in this post we will address some of them that can only be only used in Power BI DAX statements, not in Excel.