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NilR
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How to Convert Earlier function to M Query

Here is my Dax Calculated column, but I have a lot of data that slows down the process. How can I rewrite this to Mquery ?

 

Active_records_last_11_months = 
var _GP_NB = 'Table'[GP]
var _id = 'Table'[ID]
var _end_date = 'Table'[Start_Date]
var _start_date = EOMONTH(_end_date,-12)+1

VAR _COUNT = RANKX ( 
        FILTER (ALL('Table'),
            'Table'[GP] = EARLIER('Table'[GP])
            && 'Table'[ID] = EARLIER('Table'[ID])
            && 'Table'[DATEDIFF] = EARLIER('Table'[DATEDIFF])
            && 'Table'[Start_Date] >= _start_date
            && 'Table'[Start_Date] <= _end_date
        ),        
        'Table'[Start_Date],
        ,
        ASC,
        Dense
    )
 RETURN 
 
_COUNT

 

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lbendlin
Super User
Super User

DAX is executed in memory. Power Query M code is executed on disk. It will most likely be slower.

 

EARLIER is no longer a preferred choice. Instead, use variables.

 

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Thanks, Great info!! I ended up adding a sql statemnet to my data: DENSE_RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY ...)

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