Subsequent to a recent DAX pop quiz that I prepared and posted on LinkedIn, Pavel Adam, one of the people who responded to the quiz raised a fascinating idea, via which text columns no longer needed a numeric sort column to put them in proper order. I experimented with Pavel’s approach and it worked beautifully. In today’s video, I show how using that approach you can create self-sorting text columns using both DAX and Power Query.<\/p>\n

– Brian<\/p>\n

Link to Solution:
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***** Video Details *****
\n00:00 Introduction
\n01:03 The goal
\n02:43 Extended date table
\n03:31 Power Query solution
\n04:10 Text.Repeat
\n04:36 Character.FromNumber
\n06:58 DAX solution
\n07:28 REPT
\n09:06 Visual application<\/p>\n

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