© Philip Seamark 2018
Philip SeamarkBeginning DAX with Power BIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3477-8_1

1. Introduction to DAX

Philip Seamark1 
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UPPER HUTT, New Zealand
 

The aim of this book is to help you learn how you can use the DAX language to improve your data modelling capability using tools such as Microsoft Power BI, Excel Power Pivot, and SSAS Tabular. This book will be particularly useful if you already have a good knowledge of T-SQL, although this is not essential.

Throughout the book, I present and solve a variety of scenarios using DAX and provide equivalent T-SQL statements primarily as a comparative reference to help clarify each solution. My personal background is as someone who has spent many years building solutions using T-SQL, ...

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