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Slides for PASS BI Virtual Group

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Today I’m going to be presenting on DAX for the PASS BI Virtual Group. The focus is on all the hard mental concepts of DAX. If I could sum up the talk in one picture, it would be this:

That red area is where I banged my head when learning DAX. The learning curve shoots up wildly in the middle of learning the technology, instead of a slow gentle curve. This presentation covers the middle parts that are key to understanding DAX.

Here are the slides for the presentation: Introduction-to-DAX-2017-03-30

Here is the recording:


Here is the talk by Marco Russo I mentioned in my presentation: Optimizing Multi-Billion Row Tables in Tabular

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4 responses to “Slides for PASS BI Virtual Group”

  1. Ben Avatar
    Ben

    Hi Eugene,
    Great job with the excellent webinar today! And thanks for offering to take a stab at my question regarding the DAX equivalent for nested subqueries or temp tables.
    I have reached out to the MSDN forums to avail, even though it seems like a common scenario:

    https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/ed5ad223-bda0-4013-8a6a-9008428ed3e1/dynamic-nested-filter-in-dax?forum=sqlkjpowerpivotforexcel&prof=required

    Thank you!

    Ben

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    1. admin Avatar
      admin

      Thanks for attending! I’ll take a look at it and see if I’m able to get anywhere.

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