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DAX is useful to different people, for different purposes: Power BI users might need to author DAX formulas in their models, Excel users can leverage DAX to author Power Pivot data models, business intelligence (BI) professionals might need to implement DAX code in BI solutions of any size. In this book, we tried to provide information to all these different kinds of people. Some of the content (specifically the optimization part) is probably more targeted to BI professionals, because the knowledge needed to optimize a DAX measure is very technical; but we believe that Power BI and Excel users too should understand the range of possible performance of DAX expressions to achieve the best results for their models.Finally, we wanted to write a book to study, not only a book to read. At the beginning, we try to keep it easy and follow a logical path from zero to DAX. However, when the concepts to learn start to become more complex, we stop trying to be simple, and we remain realistic. DAX is simple, but it is not easy. It took years for us to master it and to understand every detail of the engine. Do not expect to be able to learn all this content in a few days, by reading casually. Th

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Author

Marco Russo, Alberto Ferrari

Publisher

Microsoft Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780134865874

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Business, Management, Science