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Definitive Guide to DAX, The: Business intelligence for Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server Analysis Services, and Excel

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Now expanded and updated with modern best practices, this is the most complete guide to Microsoft’s DAX language for business intelligence, data modeling, and analytics. Expert Microsoft BI consultants Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari help you master everything from table functions through advanced code and model optimization. You’ll learn exactly what happens under the hood when you run a DAX expression, and use this knowledge to write fast, robust code. This edition focuses on examples you can build and run with the free Power BI Desktop, and helps you make the most of the powerful syntax of variables (VAR) in Power BI, Excel, or Analysis Services. Want to leverage all of DAX’s remarkable capabilities? This no-compromise “deep dive” is exactly what you need. Perform powerful data analysis with DAX for Power BI, SQL Server, and Excel ·         Master core DAX concepts, including calculated columns, measures, and calculation groups ·         Work efficiently with basic and advanced table functions ·         Understand evaluation contexts and the CALCULATE and CALCULATETABLE functions ·         Perform time-based calculations ·         Use calculation groups and calculation items ·         Use syntax of variables (VAR) to write more readable, maintainable code ·         Express diverse and unusual relationships with DAX, including many-to-many relationships and bidirectional filters ·         Master advanced optimization techniques, and improve performance in aggregations ·         Optimize data models to achieve better compression ·         Measure DAX query performance with DAX Studio and learn how to optimize your DAX 

Table of Contents:
Introduction Chapter 1: What is DAX? Chapter 2: Introducing DAX Chapter 3: Using basic table functions Chapter 4: Understanding evaluation contexts Chapter 5: Understanding CALCULATE and CALCULATETABLE Chapter 6: DAX examples Chapter 7: Time intelligence calculations Chapter 8: Statistical functions Chapter 9: Advanced table functions Chapter 10: Advanced evaluation context Chapter 11: Handling hierarchies Chapter 12: Advanced relationships Chapter 13: The VertiPaq engine Chapter 14: Optimizing data models Chapter 15: Analyzing DAX query plans Chapter 16: Optimizing DAX Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780134865874
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Addison Wesley
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Business intelligence for Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server Analysis Services, and Excel
  • ISBN-10: 0134865871
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jul 2019
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 768


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