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Philip SeamarkBeginning DAX with Power BIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3477-8_9

9. Practical DAX

Philip Seamark1 
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UPPER HUTT, New Zealand
 

This chapter focuses on building a model using DAX and without using external data sources. In this chapter, you build your own dataset. All data is generated using step-by-step examples that showcase various tips and techniques you may find useful.

The final model has a structure resembling what you might use for a small organization with tables for sales, dates, and products. Because the number of rows for each table is automatically generated, you can use the final model for optimizing DAX calculations over a large dataset. By changing a few numbers here and there, you can generate ...

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