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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Introduction to the second edition
When we decided it was time to update this book, we thought it would be an easy job: After all, not many things have changed in the DAX language, and the theoretical core of the book was still very good. We believed the focus would mainly be on updating the screenshots from Excel to Power BI, adding a few touch-ups here and there, and we would be done. How wrong we were!
As soon as we started updating the first chapter, we quickly discovered that we wanted to rewrite nearly everything. We felt so not only in the first chapter, but at every page of the book. Therefore, this is not really a second edition; it is a brand new book.
The reason is not that the language or the tools have changed so drastically. The ...