Up and Running with DAX for Power BI: A Concise Guide for Non-Technical Users

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11. Using Variables: Making Our Code More Readable

Alison Box¹  

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Billingshurst, West Sussex, UK

 

We’ve managed very well so far without the use of variables in our DAX code. Indeed, variables haven’t always been around in the DAX language. They came on board in 2015, five years after DAX was first developed. In this chapter, we will elaborate on why variables are so useful when writing DAX expressions, and once you’ve learned how to utilize them, we will be including them henceforth in our expression, where applicable.¹

Using variables in your DAX expressions can help ...