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DAX Tips, Tricks and Techniques

Learn a multitude of DAX tips, tricks and techniques to take your skills to the next level!
Rating: 4.6 out of 54.6 (48 ratings)
305 students
Created by Randy Minder
Last updated 9/2020
English
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What you'll learn

  • Why you must learn some theory first
  • Best practices for naming conventions for your DAX and data model objects
  • Why bidirectional filtering is not your friend
  • Filtering techniques
  • How to find the performance bottleneck in your large Power BI report
  • Techniques for creating measures to handle common business related requirements and scenarios
  • Time intelligence techniques
  • DAX interview questions to test your own knowledge as well as interviewing prospective DAX developers

Requirements

  • Some working knowledge of DAX

Description

This course is all about learning an assortment of DAX tips, tricks, techniques and best practices in a wide range of areas including:

  • The DAX language

  • Data models and modeling

  • DAX Studio

  • Performance Analyzer and the VertiPaq Analyzer

  • Time Intelligence

  • Best practices

  • Common mistakes

  • Error handling

  • Miscellaneous techniques

  • Bidirectional filters

  • The need to learn theory first

  • A Quiz section to test your knowledge and questions which could be used when interviewing for DAX developers


Who this course is for:

  • DAX and Power Pivot Developers

Course content

14 sections • 40 lectures • 6h 53m total length

  • Preview01:55

  • Preview14:56

  • DAX Common Mistakes - Session 1
    04:48
  • DAX Common Mistakes - Session 2
    05:47
  • DAX Common Mistakes - Session 3
    03:49
  • DAX Common Mistakes - Session 4
    08:02
  • DAX Common Mistakes - Session 5
    04:57

  • DAX and Data Model Naming Conventions
    11:04

  • DAX Filtering Techniques
    15:09
  • TREATAS - The Little Known Wonder-Function
    14:31

  • Bidirectional Filters - The problem
    09:12
  • Bidirectional Filters - The solution
    04:05

  • Using the ALL, ALLEXCEPT and ALLSELECTED functions
    12:55

  • Techniques for handling errors
    07:17

  • Monitoring Techniques, Performance Analyzer and DAX Studio
    22:28
  • DAX Studio Wrap up and VertiPaq Analyzer
    12:42

  • Preview00:31
  • Organizing Your Data Model
    18:10
  • Star Schema Overview
    05:56
  • The Magic of Aggregation Tables
    19:16
  • Fact Tables with Multiple Dates
    11:05

Instructor

Randy Minder
Data Architect / Business Intelligence / Power BI
Randy Minder
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 644 Reviews
  • 4,314 Students
  • 18 Courses

Microsoft Certified Professional:

Exam 70-778: Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power BI (January, 2019)

Seasoned database architect (OLTP, data warehouses, operational data stores), tabular modeling, business intelligence and Power BI. 20 years of software development using a variety of Microsoft technologies, mostly C#.

2016 Nominee for the First Solar Business Enablement CEO Award for Analytics Tools & Methods Infrastructure.

StackOverflow reputation of 31,200 (top 1%)

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