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Software ==>	PowerPivot (72 exercises)
Topic ==>	More advanced DAX functions (5 exercises)
Level ==>	Harder than average
Subject ==>	Power BI training

Group purchases into shopping centre size bands, using the EARLIER and FILTER functions

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Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file . Once you've done this:

Go into SQL Server Management Studio;
Open the SQL file you've just unzipped (you can press CTRL + O to do this); then
Execute this script.

This will generate the database that you'll need to use in order to do this exercise (note that the database and script are only to be used for exercises published on this website, and may not be reused or distributed in any form without the prior written permission of Wise Owl).

Create a new workbook, and import the following tables into your PowerPivot data model:

The tables you'll need for this exercise (as is our owly wont, we've given them friendly names).

Open the Word document in the above folder called Unit sizes, and paste it into your PowerPivot data model as a new table called Sizes.

Don't join this table to any other, though - it should stand alone.

Now create a calculated column in the Centre table (not a measure) to give the size verdict for each centre:

Categorise each centre into bands.

You can do this by using the CALCULATE function to show the value of the category from the Sizes table, applying these two filters:

This row's NumberUnits value is greater than or equal to the Lower field value in the Sizes table; and
This row's NumberUnits value is less than the Upper field value in the Sizes table.

You can refer to "This row" by using the EARLIER function - but this is still a difficult exercise, and should you get stuck an answer is shown below.

Here's one possible answer to this exercise:

=CALCULATE (

VALUES ( Categories[Category] ),

EARLIER ( Centre[NumberUnits] ) < Categories[Upper],

EARLIER ( Centre[NumberUnits] ) >= Categories[Lower]

)

Finally, use this calculated column to summarise sales by size category: