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This document provides an introduction to working with dates in DAX and Power BI. It discusses date and time functions, creating a dedicated date table for accurate time-based reporting and analysis, and using calendar functions like CALENDAR() and CALENDARAUTO() to generate a date table. Creating a date table allows filtering by multiple date attributes, custom calendar views, and effective use of time intelligence features. Common types of time-series analysis like revenue by day of week and fiscal performance are also mentioned.

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Chapter 3

This document provides an introduction to working with dates in DAX and Power BI. It discusses date and time functions, creating a dedicated date table for accurate time-based reporting and analysis, and using calendar functions like CALENDAR() and CALENDARAUTO() to generate a date table. Creating a date table allows filtering by multiple date attributes, custom calendar views, and effective use of time intelligence features. Common types of time-series analysis like revenue by day of week and fiscal performance are also mentioned.

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The Date Table

I N T R O D U C T I O N TO DA X I N P OW E R B I

Jess Ahmet
Content Developer, Datacamp
Working with dates
Example Date: 2020/09/20 12:52 Format Function

Date and Time Functions Weekday: FORMAT(<date>, <"dddd">) >


Friday
YEAR(<date>) > 2020
Time: FORMAT(<date>, <"h:nn:ss">) >
QUARTER(<datetime>) > 3
"12:52:00"
MONTH(<datetime>) > 9
Time Intelligence Functions

LASTDATE()

DATESBETWEEN()

DATEADD()

1 h ps://docs.microso .com/en-us/dax/format-function-dax

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Working with dates
Evaluate data in time-series to spot trends and pa erns i.e seasonal performance

Out of the box features:


20+ Date and Time Functions

30+ Time Intelligence Functions

Automatically enabled date hierarchies


Drill-able to year, quarter, month and day

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The importance of a date table
Issues of relying on only dates from transactional tables:

Gaps in dates i.e no sales made on 20th September

Returns wrong results when using time-intelligence functions


No error, wrong result

Di cult to troubleshoot

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Creating a Date Table
A dedicated date table is highly recommended for accurate reporting using time-
intelligence functions.

Bene ts:

Filter by multiple date a ributes such as Year and Month

Custom calendar view/de nitions such as scal dates

Use of time-intelligence features to select a time horizon (e.g Today, Yesterday, Last 30
days)

Types of Analysis:

Revenue by Day of Week, Fiscal Performance, Public Holidays

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Creating a Date table
CALENDAR()

Syntax: CALENDAR(<start_date>, <end_date>)

Returns a table with a single column 'date' that contains a continuous set of dates inclusive
of the speci ed dates

Example: CALENDAR('2020-01-01', '2020-12-31')

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Creating a Date table
CALENDAR()

Syntax: CALENDAR(<start_date>, <end_date>)

Returns a table with a single column 'date' that contains a continuous set of dates inclusive
of the speci ed dates

Example: CALENDAR('2020-01-01', '2020-12-31')

Date
2020-01-01
2020-01-02
...
2020-12-31

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Creating a Date table
CALENDARAUTO()

Syntax: CALENDARAUTO(<fiscal_year_end_month>)

Returns a table with a single column 'date' that automatically takes the earliest and latest
date in the model and internally calls CALENDAR() .

Example: CALENDARAUTO(12)

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Creating a Date table
CALENDARAUTO()

Syntax: CALENDARAUTO(<fiscal_year_end_month>)

Returns a table with a single column 'date' that automatically takes the earliest and latest
date in the model and internally calls CALENDAR() .

Example: CALENDARAUTO(12)

Date
2020-01-01
2020-07-31
...
2020-12-31

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Let's practice!
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Dates and Quick
Measures
I N T R O D U C T I O N TO DA X I N P OW E R B I

Jess Ahmet
Content Developer at DataCamp
Let's practice!
I N T R O D U C T I O N TO DA X I N P OW E R B I
Congratulations!
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Jess Ahmet
Content Developer at DataCamp
Course Recap
Chapter 1 Chapter 2

DAX functions Row vs. lter context

Creating calculated columns Use of variables with VAR

Creating measures Working with iterator functions

Using CALCULATE() to lter measures


Chapter 3

Creating calculated tables

Date and Time, Format and Time


Intelligence Functions

Quick Measures

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Practice makes perfect!

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Become a DAX
master!
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