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Hi All,
I have a formula to calculate cumulative sum which gives the results but it has extremely slow performance :
It is not best practice to use SUMMARIZE to add calculated columns, see the article at https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/best-practices-using-summarize-and-addcolumns/
Try instead
Cumulative at country =
VAR AccountRev = FinalTraumaAllocation[Act22]
var table1 = ADDCOLUMNS(
SUMMARIZE(ALLSELECTED('Comp Org'[Comp. Org Country]),'Comp Org'[Comp. Org Country]),
"Sales22", CALCULATE( FinalTraumaAllocation[Act22] )
)
Return
Sumx(FILTER(table1, [Sales22]>=AccountRev), [Sales22])
Hi @johnt75
Thank you for the suggestion. I have reformatted DASX.
However, I still have performance issues. It is loading visual in 1 minute.
If the cumulative totals don't need to take account of other filter settings, such as date range, then you could look into moving the calculations into Power Query or creating a summary calculated table in DAX. That way the performance hit would be a one-off during data load and the visuals should be instantaneous.
If you do need to interact with other slicers or filters I am afraid I cannot help further, optimization is not my strong suit.
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