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Dax code - Differences
Anonymous No real difference between them, just different ways of doing the same thing. A lot of this is personal preference. There are many that are on the CALCULATE band wagon. I am not one of those people. I have a whole series of articles and videos on this topic.
CALCUHATE - Why I Don't Use DAX's CALCULATE Functi... - Microsoft Power BI Community
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoibEIc7heYNZbnY4CTCtg2tjEcMh8WbZ
Anonymous No real difference between them, just different ways of doing the same thing. A lot of this is personal preference. There are many that are on the CALCULATE band wagon. I am not one of those people. I have a whole series of articles and videos on this topic.
CALCUHATE - Why I Don't Use DAX's CALCULATE Functi... - Microsoft Power BI Community
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoibEIc7heYNZbnY4CTCtg2tjEcMh8WbZ
Thank you Greg_Deckler
This seems like a simple question, but after years working with different BI tools and doing different type of calculations, I am looking for a reason to use calculate. I think it is the most useless function that I have seen if you want to creat a really useful semantic layer. without bias or hardcode.
Thank you for your clarification.
Anonymous That kind of thinking will get you hate mail. Believe me, I know. I'm certain there is a use case out there somewhere but, yes, you are correct, CALCULATE is generally superfluous. But God forbid you actually say that. It does have the advantage of being able to "stack" your measures and calculate them in different contexts. However, I personally hate that approach as it makes debugging and troubleshooting and absolute nightmare.