Measure drift: detecting when a client has hand-edited your DAX
A client fixes a measure directly in their model, and your next deployment silently overwrites it. How to detect that drift before it does damage.
BilâlAugust 25Author
Data Engineer, founder of BIunify
A Data Engineer for 4 years, he did BI work for clients like the OECD, LVMH, and ENGIE before founding BIunify to stop starting over with every client.
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