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Hi guys!
I am suffering with a performance issue for a measure.
It is derived from several others, so I'll paste all the ones that are calculated for the last one to exist.
All the previous are not affecting the performance when brought in a table (for instance).
Do you have any advices to save processing, maybe using different syntaxes...
This is what I did to calculate the average use for the next 30 days of every item
Then this is what I did to find out the target stock value for each one
I then do a SUMX against the unit values
This is how I calculate what I current have in Stock
And finally this is the Measure that is causing the performance impact, when I have to calculate the Excess Stock existent based on all the previous ones
Solved! Go to Solution.
@Anonymous,
You can use variable to avoid double calculation in your measure:
Excess Stock =
VAR result = [Valid Stock Value] - [TargetStockValue] - [No Future Use]
RETURN
IF ( result < 0, 0, result )
@Anonymous,
Same principle applies. You want to avoid repeating measure because it calculates every time you mention it. Use variable so the result is stored in the memory
Stock OK =
VAR validStock = [Valid Stock Value]
VAR targetStock = [TargetStockValue]
RETURN
SWITCH ( TRUE (); validStock >= targetStock; targetStock; validStock )
@Anonymous,
You can use variable to avoid double calculation in your measure:
Excess Stock =
VAR result = [Valid Stock Value] - [TargetStockValue] - [No Future Use]
RETURN
IF ( result < 0, 0, result )
@Anonymous
This one is still a bit slow, though... any ideas about it?
@Anonymous,
Same principle applies. You want to avoid repeating measure because it calculates every time you mention it. Use variable so the result is stored in the memory
Stock OK =
VAR validStock = [Valid Stock Value]
VAR targetStock = [TargetStockValue]
RETURN
SWITCH ( TRUE (); validStock >= targetStock; targetStock; validStock )
@Anonymous
@Anonymous wrote:@Anonymous,
You can use variable to avoid double calculation in your measure:
Excess Stock = VAR result = [Valid Stock Value] - [TargetStockValue] - [No Future Use] RETURN IF ( result < 0, 0, result )
Awesome! This reduced the calculation time from 4 minutes to 10 secs. Thanks!
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