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Hands-On Business Intelligence with DAX

You're reading from   Hands-On Business Intelligence with DAX Discover the intricacies of this powerful query language to gain valuable insights from your data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838824303
Length 402 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ian Horne Ian Horne
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to DAX for the BI Pro
2. What is DAX? FREE CHAPTER 3. Using DAX Variables and Formatting 4. Building Data Models 5. Working with DAX in Power BI, Excel, and SSAS 6. Getting It into Context 7. Section 2: Understanding DAX Functions and Syntax
8. Progressive DAX Syntax and Functions 9. Table Functions 10. Date, Time, and Time Intelligence Functions 11. Filter Functions 12. Statistical Functions 13. Working with DAX Patterns 14. Section 3: Taking DAX to the Next Level
15. Optimizing Your Data Model 16. Optimizing Your DAX Queries 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Changing context using DAX functions

Having covered the evaluation contexts in some detail, we are now going to look at some ways in which we can use DAX functions to change the evaluation context. We'll start off by looking at how we can change the behavior of an expression that is evaluated using the row context.

Context transition

You may remember that, at the start of this chapter, we looked at how an expression we used for a measure did not work in the same way when used in the definition of a calculated column. This is because calculated columns are evaluated using row context, and not filter context. However, it is possible to convert an expression from using the row context into using the filter context by wrapping...

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