August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
768 pages
26h
English
book
Definitive Guide to DAX, The: Business intelligence for Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server Analysis Services, and Excel, 2nd Edition
by Alberto Ferrari, Marco Russo
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Foreword
You may not know our names. We spend our days writing the code for the software you use in your daily job: We are part of the development team of Power BI, SQL Server Analysis Services, and...yes, we are among the authors of the DAX language and the VertiPaq engine.
The language you are going to learn using this book is our creation. We spent years working on this language, optimizing the engine, finding ways to improve the optimizer, and trying to build DAX into a simple, clean, and sound language to make your life as a data analyst easier and more productive.
But hey, this is intended to be the foreword of a book, so no more about us! Why are we writing a foreword for a book published by Marco and Alberto, the SQLBI guys? Well, because ...