Working on an SSAS Tabular project in Visual Studio 2010;
I'm trying to create a measure that calculates the total number of business days in a month:
I have Month Start Date and Month End Date measures, and Date and Is Business Day columns.
I can create a Total Business Days measure with COUNTROWS(FILTER(Dates,Dates[Is Business Day]=TRUE())). That gives me the number of business days in the context, but I want the number of business days for the current month.
I've tried various combinations of FILTER, COUNT, COUNTX, COUNTROWS, DATESBETWEEN, and CALCULATE without success.
What I want is a count of days between two dates, where the column [Is Business Day] is true, but I can't seem to get the right combination of filtering.
I would guess I filter the Dates table the way I do for the Total Business Days measure, but FILTER returns a table and COUNTROWS expects a single column - is there a way to get single column from a FILTER result?
Here's one thought...
First, create a calculated column called MonthKey (if you don't have it already):
=YEAR([Date]) * 100 + MONTH([Date])
Then create another calculated column called IsCurrentMonth
=IF(YEAR(TODAY()) * 100 + MONTH(TODAY()) = [MonthKey], 1, 0)
Then you can create your calculated measure as
COUNTROWS(FILTER(Dates,Dates[IsCurrentMonth] = 1))
Would that do what you need?
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I am trying to create a calculated column on a SSAS cube to work out the following:
Net Net X Rate = [Net Net Revenue] / [X]
where X = no of days
I need an output for X (using MDX), Something like the no. of days for the date period selected
For example upon the selection of
30 days for the chosen month of April 2021
X = 30
rate for 30 days
14 days for the chosen month of December 2020
X=14
rate for 14 days
I don't have access to SSAS at this point, but maybe somthing like
Net Net X Rate = [Net Net Revenue] / COUNT( EXISTING [Date].[Calendar].[Day].Members )
Answered here maybe: Count children members in MDX
Maybe this could help: DateDiffDays or .
I had something like this in mind: DateDiffDays([Measures].[From_Date], Now()). It will count the days difference between some day in the past and now. DateDiffWorkdays will get you a number of working days between two dates.
Alternatively, you could pre-calculate this value in a view and then pull the number into a cube.
Assuming your Date dimension is on day granularity, a very efficient way from query performance point of view to get what you want would be to add a column to your date dimension table. This could either be done in a view in the relational data model, or in the DVS as a calculated column. Name it e. g. number of days or just X, and make it be the value 1 on each row, i. e. the column expression is just 1. Then you create a new measure group based on this table, with the only measure being X, which would just sum this column. Then, whatever your query context would be, the X measure would just be the number of days. If you want, you can then make the measure invisible.
I have a DimDate table that has a Billable Day Portion field that can be between 0 and 1. For each day that's in the current Bonus Period I want to multiple that Day Portion by 10, and then return the total sum.
To find out what Bonus Period we're in, I return ContinuousBonusPeriod where the date equals today:
Current Continuous Bonus Period:= CALCULATE(MAX(DimDate[ContinuousBonusPeriod]), FILTER(DimDate, DimDate[DateKey] = TODAY()))
I can see in the measure display this is correctly coming back as Bonus Period 1. However, when I then use ContinuousBonusPeriod in the measure to determine the number of days in the current period, it only returns 10, 1 day multiplied by the static 10.
Billable Hours This Period:= CALCULATE(SUMX(DimDate, DimDate[Billable Day Portion] * 10), FILTER(DimDate, DimDate[ContinuousBonusPeriod] = [Current Continuous Bonus Period]))
It appears to be only counting today's DimDate record instead of all the records whereContinuousBonusPeriod = 'Bonus Period 1' as I'd expect.
I needed to make sure no existing filter was applied to the DimDate table when calculating the Current Continuous Bonus Period:
Current Continuous Bonus Period:= CALCULATE(MAX(DimDate[ContinuousBonusPeriod]), FILTER(ALL(DimDate), DimDate[DateKey] = TODAY()))
(Notice the ALL() statement)
In a form on Ms ACCESS, a user can select a commodity (such as copper, nickel, etc.) from a list and a commodity price date from a list. A trailing 12 month average commodity price should then be calculated.
For example: the user selects Copper as commodity and February 1st 2010, 02/01/2010. I then want the average price to be calculated over the time period: [02/01/2009 - 02/01/2010].
I'm not sure how to write this in query form. This is the current incomplete code;
SELECT Avg(CommPrices.Price) AS Expr1,
FROM CommPrices
WHERE (((CommPrices.Commodity)=[Forms]![Tool Should Cost]![List243]))
AND CommPrices.DateComm = [Forms]![Tool Should Cost]![List55];
List243 is the list of commodities the user can select from, list55 is the list of dates the user can select. All data is obtained from the table CommPrices.
Note: the earliest dates in the column DateComm is 01/01/2008. So if the user selects a date for example 02/01/2008, then calculating the average over the past 12 months before 02/01/2008 won't be possible. I do want the code to still calculate the average using the dates available. (in the example it would just be the average over the past month)
Second Note: the column DateComm only has monthly dates for the first day of every month (e.g 01/01/2008, 02/01/2008, 03/01/2008). The dates listed in list55 can refer to different days in the month (e.g 03/16/2009), in that case I want the code to still calculate the past 12 month average using the closest commodity dates possible. So if the user selects date 03/16/2009, I want the code to calculate the 12 month average for 03/01/2008 - 03/01/2009.
For "integer" months it would be:
SELECT
Avg(CommPrices.Price) AS AveragePrice,
FROM
CommPrices
WHERE
CommPrices.Commodity=[Forms]![Tool Should Cost]![List243]
AND
CommPrices.DateComm = BETWEEN
DateSerial(Year([Forms]![Tool Should Cost]![List55]) - 1, Month([Forms]![Tool Should Cost]![List55]), 1)
AND
DateSerial(Year([Forms]![Tool Should Cost]![List55]), Month([Forms]![Tool Should Cost]![List55]), 1)
I have a Month Column with the Month Field populated for each line for the 100K of lines of data I have.
I need to count the amount of times the Month Field is populated in the Previous Month (Period).
I also need to count the total amount of times the Month Field is populated in the Previous 11 months as well.
This is a rolling count for each months reporting that I do..
table name: 'ws pds' and field name [Month Tagged]
You can utilize the powerful time intelligence functions in DAX such as PARRALLELPERIOD to look at values from previous months. But in order to make use of these functions you need to create a calendar/date entity. Mark that entity as a Date table. And join to it by date from your "ws pds" table. The Date dimension should span the timeframe of your date with a continuous list of dates, one row per day.
Then your measure could look like this:
PreviousMonthCount=
CALCULATE (
COUNTROWS ( 'ws pds' ),
'ws pds'[Month Tagged] <> BLANK (),
PARALLELPERIOD ( Calendar[Date], -1, MONTH )
)
I have a dimension "Company" which has a member "CompanyName" and a measure group "CompanyMembership" which has measures "StartDate" and "EndDate". How do I count the number of companies that have membership for a date or month or year? I also have a user hierarchy Date.Calendar (like the one in Adventure Works).
If the date current member represents a month the member value will be the first day of the month and I only care if the membership covers that day. If a year the member value will be the first day of the year and I only care if the membership covers that day.
Here is some pseudocode for what I would like:
sum( if (Measures.StartDate <= Date.Calendar.Value <= Measures.EndDate) then 1 else 0)
I would like to keep StartDate and EndDate in the same fact table row (not split into two rows - one with StartDate and one with EndDate) but would be willing to change the schema if there's no other way.
How can I write this expression?
I don't have a method for doing this in your current schema, but you should really consider making Membership a time dimension. That would make answering "was this company a member on this date?" much easier.