How to get month name from month number in Power BI?

Question

I have Year number and Month Number in my data. How using DAX can I get the month name out of month number?

In SSRS its very easy. But how to achieve that using DAX?

Answer 1

You can use:

MonthName = FORMAT(DATE(1, [Num], 1), "MMM")

Result:

Nothing fancy, simply a reconstruction of a fake date from the month number provided, and reformat it with the FORMAT function.

Of course as an alternative you can go the old-fashioned way and write a SWITCH statement and hard-coded for the 12 months. It's up to you.