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What’s New: May 2023: Dax Functions, and PBI Fabric

Dax Keeps pouring out new Functions.

DAX

So Many New DAX functions

CoPilot, and Fabric

Power BI Feature Summaries

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Command Line Experiment Formatting Power BI Power Query VS Code

Experiments of 2021-10

Pwsh: Fuzzy Select Colors With Preview

PS> Get-ChildItem fg: | Where Name -match ‘red’
  • queries the color provider with partial matches
  • pipes to Out-Fzf or fzf for the preview and selection

Bitwise operators

Generated using a Pwsh script

ShouldProcess formatting

More Fzf

PSReadline: Auto-expand Aliases in the CLI

  • alt+shift+( surrounds selection, or the entire command in parenthesis
  • alt+shift+% runs Invoke-Formatter to format the code, including alias replacement

Pester5 ForEach | `code` snippet

Using Notebooks: for Github issue queries

Created a list of queries for the release of https://vscode.dev
ninmonkey/VS Code on the Web – Cheat Sheet – Custom urls.md

Power Query Web.Contents wrapper for Web API / REST calls

  • WebRequest_Simple.pq
  • enables ManualStatusHandling for better errors ( This is important for any REST APIs)
  • detects whether it’s Json or html, and returns a json record if existing
  • Always displays the response as plain-text as response_text
  • Lets you inspect request info, like headers used.

Power Query: Import from an external file

Experimenting with console formatting

Select a ton of properties, saving names as an array

Hashtables: Command line formatting

DAX: Syntax highlight bracket pairs



    "[dax-language]": {
        "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true, //colorize the pairs
        "editor.guides.bracketPairs": true, // colorize vertical lines
        "editor.matchBrackets": "always",
        "editor.minimap.enabled": false,
        "editor.lineNumbers": "off",
    },
},

Pwsh: Prompt that summarizes recent errors

Pwsh: Colorized Directory Listing

  • Using terminal wt, Pwsh as the shell, and module: pansies for color
  • The current directory is a gradient, the boldest part is the most important part of the path.
  • cd-ing to a directory will summarize the new directory, without “spamming” the user when there’s a lot of items
    • Folders first, sorted by most recently modified
    • Files second, sorted most recently
    • Icon shows filetype

DAX: Conditionally Toggle Button using Measure

WordPress Image scaling

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Run DAX in Your Browser: SQL-BI.com has a DAX Web App | What’s New

The announcement: sqlbi.com/introducing-dax-do

Examples on Dax.Guide have a “try it” button to launch the editor