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Ranking
It looks like RankX is not supported:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt723603.aspx
However, if you go to the File > Options > Direct Query menu, you can check the box for unrestricted measures. This allows all DAX but won't necessarily work if the backend DB doesn't support it since with DQ the queries get sent to the DB for execution.
When i do my countx formula for the total it seems to work, but when i do my visual i get
Couldn't load the data for this visual
The resultset of a query to external data source has exceeded the maximum allowed size of '1000000' row.
Is this just saying that my dataset is too large for directquery?
Yes. You need to aggregate the data so that the rows returned are below that limit.
This may be a stupid question, but no question is stupid right...:smileyhappy:
How do I aggregate the data?
would i break the table into x number of tables, where x is the number of companies in the database? so each company has its own table and therefore its own information, then link them back up inside Power BI?
Direct Query is designed more to return aggregations that the source DB performs, rather than return the raw data. While filtering always consumes a lot of resources, with an import data model (rather than DQ) it is possible that your structure/model is partly to blame for the performance problems. You should be using a star schema with lookup tables and fact tables. I would recommend going back to an import data model and seeing if you can improve the model structure to get a better response time when slicing the data.