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

Name: Up and Running with DAX for Power BI: A Concise Guide for Non-Technical Users
Author: Alison Box
ISBN: 9781484281888

by Alison Box

May 2022

Intermediate to advanced

376 pages

7h 40m

English

Apress

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

A. BoxUp and Running with DAX for Power BI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8188-8_18

18. Table Expansion

Alison Box¹

(1)

Billingshurst, West Sussex, UK

In this chapter, you will learn how to reference expanded tables in your DAX code and explore how this knowledge can help you manage the limitations imposed on you by the structure of your tables within the star schema. The concept of table expansion is the final piece in the jigsaw of understanding how DAX works.¹ This implies there is some precedence in the importance of DAX concepts. However, just as in a jigsaw, it’s only when all the pieces have been fitted do you see the whole picture, and we can ...

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