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Blank Dates and DAX

Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari are blanking on us:

Handling missing dates in a semantic model can be challenging, especially when working with DAX time intelligence functions. Dates might be missing for various reasons: incomplete data entry, system errors, special placeholder values like 0000, or dates set far in the future. We will see that using a blank is the best way to manage missing dates, even though you should pay attention to DAX conditional expressions operating on those dates. We will also consider how to hide these blanks in a Power BI report if their presence is not desired in charts and slicers.

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