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Pro DAX with Power BI: Business Intelligence with PowerPivot and SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular
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Pro DAX with Power BI: Business Intelligence with PowerPivot and SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular

by Philip Seamark, Thomas Martens
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
7h 37m
English
Apress
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© Philip Seamark, Thomas Martens 2019
P. Seamark, T. MartensPro DAX with Power BIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4897-3_1

1. DAX Mechanics

Philip Seamark1  and Thomas Martens2
(1)
UPPER HUTT, New Zealand
(2)
Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
 

The idea behind this chapter is quite simple. Throughout the last years, we have been asked a lot of questions on how to calculate measures and Calculated Columns. And we also have been asked the following question numerous times: “Why does this not work?”

As soon as we started looking closer to the underlying business problem, we started to often wonder, “Why did they ask this question? It’s so simple.” Then we realized that things we consider simple are often not that simple for other people.

Providing answers to DAX-related ...

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