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DAX : Building a monthly salesreport with estimation in PowerPivot (Part II)

I'm not happy with the solution presented in my former post about Daily sales report because the current month is determined with the NOW() function. Rob Collie would say that the every time you look at a PowerPivot workbook you think: "that can be improved". The NOW() function calculates the current date like the GETDATE() function in SQL. This solution has some flaws, because when a user comes back months later and he or she wants to use this workbook again it won't work because the data is from months earlier. So, we have to think about a more robust solution.

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Tags: design, dax, tabular

 

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