Chris Webb's BI Blog

ApproximateDistinctCount In Power BI Is Sometimes Slower Than DistinctCount

As a follow-on from last week’s post about the new ApproximateDistinctCount function in DAX, I want to share something I found out from my recent testing for this function: ApproximateDistinctCount is ...
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Sub-Saharan Africa records strong trade growth as globalization reaches record level These findings form part of the latest edition of the DHL Globalization Tracker, released ...

These findings form part of the latest edition of the DHL Globalization Tracker, released today by DHL and New York University’s Stern School of Business. Based on more than 30 million data points, ...
Chris Webb's BI Blog

The Problem With Approximate Distinct Counts In Power BI – And How To Solve It

As you’ve probably seen in the blog post for the September 2026 release of Power BI, Import mode and Direct Lake mode semantic models now support the ApproximateDistinctCount() DAX function. I tested ...
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Nate on X: "Text shape and ergonomics is going to matter a ton in AI going forward Three examples here show how different the major players are across even basic queries Which ...

Nate on X: "Text shape and ergonomics is going to matter a ton in AI going forward Three examples here show how different the major players are across even basic queries Which do you prefer?" ...
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Configure full-text indexing in Power BI semantic models (preview)

Full-text indexing creates a specialized search index for a string column. The index enables full-text DAX functions to find words and natural-language concepts without relying only on exact substring ...