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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

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A. BoxUp and Running with DAX for Power BI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8188-8_6

6. The CALCULATE Function

Alison Box¹

(1)

Billingshurst, West Sussex, UK

CALCULATE is the most important function in DAX. Quite a sweeping statement you might think but as soon as you get to grips with CALCULATE, you’ll quickly realize that there won’t be many expressions you author in DAX where this function won’t be required, even though you might think we’ve done pretty well up to now. In this chapter, you will learn how to construct expressions using CALCULATE which you will find relatively straightforward. It’s understanding when and why you must use CALCULATE, and ...

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