Azure BI

Last week I was challenged by a co-worker: *‘create a way that a tabular cube case serve a YTD value for different time hierarchies.’ *Because I work at a retailer at this moment, there is a fiscal calendar and a 454 calendar, which of course doesn’t align in the begin and end date. While I was writing this post, Marco Russo wrote a great post on how to createdifferent xTD values. Please read it: http://www.sqlbi.com/articles/week-based-time-intelligence-in-dax/ (Note to myself: do not postpo

Adding trendlines to PowerPivot It started during a presentation of Cathy Dumas [http://cathydumas.com/] at the latest SQLBits [http://sqlbits.com/] where she compared the different charting capabilities of Excel, Power View, PerformancePoint and Reporting Service. One of those capabilities were trendlines who are missing in V1 of Power View. She suggested to add a trendline as a measure, but didn’t succeed, so she raised a challenge. And here I am taking this challenge to add a trendline to a P