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LIKE function in a measure
How to use a function that does the same thing as, for example, I want to do a calculation where I want only one group of information in a given field to be considered:
Global Efficiency =
CALCULATE (
'IndicatorValue' [Value AVG];
TREATS ({("Global (%)")}; 'Indicator' [Description]); Equipment [DescriptionL1] = "L1_ *")
Hi Anonymous,
The LIKE operators in SQL has a similar correspondent function in DAX: the SEARCH function has a slightly different semantic because it returns the position found instead of a True/False value.
For example, consider the following condition in SQL:
Name LIKE '%SQLBI%Methodology%at%work%'
The correspondent syntax in DAX is:
SEARCH( "SQLBI*Methodology*at*work", Table[Name], 1, 0 ) > 0
There are more similar examples here:
https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/from-sql-to-dax-string-comparison/
Regards
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Hi Anonymous,
The LIKE operators in SQL has a similar correspondent function in DAX: the SEARCH function has a slightly different semantic because it returns the position found instead of a True/False value.
For example, consider the following condition in SQL:
Name LIKE '%SQLBI%Methodology%at%work%'
The correspondent syntax in DAX is:
SEARCH( "SQLBI*Methodology*at*work", Table[Name], 1, 0 ) > 0
There are more similar examples here:
https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/from-sql-to-dax-string-comparison/
Regards
how about what you wanna search is dynamic. just like a search engine you can type anything in the search box(slicer)
