Overview
Learning a new language can be over-whelming. Within the Data Analysis eXpression (
DAX) language there are many different commands. However it is quite possible to create a professional Power BI solution using a small sub set of the commands available. Where this small sub set of DAX commands together have a much more manageable learning experience.
There are two types of best practice to keep the usage of DAX as simple as possible …
If you follow the above best practices in full you will be very pleased as to how many insightful and attractive data visualisations you can easily create within a very short period of time.
The examples are included within the sample AdventureWorks PowerPivot and AdventureWorks PowerBI solutions so you can gain a greater context of the example code against each function description. Please click on the following
link to examine these data models.
There is also a DAX query script where some example code is executed within the context of a DAX query as instead of a column or measure within a model. Please download DAX Studio
https://daxstudio.org/ to view / analyse and run the DAX query scripts.
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