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6. The CALCULATE Function

Alison Box1  
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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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