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Hello community,
I created a matrix and the results are fine. But when I switch slicer from 2020 to 2021 it takes 14000 ms. When I enable the subtotals 6600 ms. Is that normal or would some optimization of the measures help?
I have a table with start and end dates. calculate a new end date:
Solved! Go to Solution.
Using variables might improve performance
Measure1 =
VAR MaxEndDate =
MAX ( TABLE[END_DATE] )
VAR YearEnd =
DATE ( SELECTEDVALUE ( CALENDER[YEAR] ), 12, 31 )
RETURN
IF (
ISBLANK ( MaxEndDate ),
YearEnd,
IF ( MaxEndDate <= YearEnd, MaxEndDate, YearEnd )
)
Using variables might improve performance
Measure1 =
VAR MaxEndDate =
MAX ( TABLE[END_DATE] )
VAR YearEnd =
DATE ( SELECTEDVALUE ( CALENDER[YEAR] ), 12, 31 )
RETURN
IF (
ISBLANK ( MaxEndDate ),
YearEnd,
IF ( MaxEndDate <= YearEnd, MaxEndDate, YearEnd )
)
Interessting. It gets double faster. Thx!
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