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DAX Cookbook

You're reading from   DAX Cookbook Over 120 recipes to enhance your business with analytics, reporting, and business intelligence

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839217074
Length 552 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Greg Deckler Greg Deckler
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Thinking in DAX 2. Dealing with Dates and Calendars FREE CHAPTER 3. Tangling with Time and Duration 4. Transforming Text and Numbers 5. Figuring Financial Rates and Revenues 6. Computing Customer KPIs 7. Evaluating Employment Measures 8. Processing Project Performance 9. Calculating Common Industry Metrics 10. Using Uncommon DAX Patterns 11. Solving Statistical and Mathematical Formulas 12. Applying Advanced DAX Patterns 13. Debugging and Optimizing DAX 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Tinkering with time zones

Ah, time zones. Such a simple concept that has caused so much havoc in the world of software development through the years! There are no functions in DAX that really address time zones, but it is often a requirement to convert date and timestamps in one time zone into date and timestamps in a different time zone. This can be especially true when dealing with log files as a data source. This recipe demonstrates how to convert date and timestamps in one time zone into date and timestamps in a different time zone.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, do the following:

  1. Open Power BI Desktop and create a table called R09_Timezones by importing the Timezones.csv file from GitHub here: https://github...
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