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DAX Tools Video Course

The DAX Tools video course teaches how to use three popular tools to write and optimize DAX: DAX Studio, VertiPaq Analyzer, and Analyze in Excel for Power BI Desktop. All these tools are free and open-source.

DAX Studio allows you to write DAX queries and test your DAX measures in an environment where you can check the results and measure performance. You can also use DAX Studio to export data in different formats. VertiPaq Analyzer requires DAX Studio to export statistics and metadata about a data model that you can investigate in more detail using the dedicated tool. You can investigate in compression and get documentation about all the DAX expressions used in a model using VertiPaq Analyzer.

Analyze in Excel for Power BI Desktop makes it very handy to test your Power BI model using an Excel PivotTable without having to publish the model to the Power BI service. During the development of new DAX formulas, this tool shortens the waiting time and increases your productivity.

The course is made of 129 minutes of lectures. You can watch the videos at any time and the system will keep track of your progress. Within the course, you can download the files used in the demos.

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  • Introduction

    • Introduction

  • DAX Studio

    • DAX Studio
    • Introduction to DAX Studio
    • Connections
    • The metadata panel
    • The ribbon
    • Running a query
    • Output of a query
    • Query builder
    • Format DAX
    • Editing tools
    • Load Performance Analyzer data
    • Capturing queries executed on a server
    • Query plan and server timings
    • Run benchmark
    • View, import, export metrics
    • Export data
    • SQL Profiler and Analyze in Excel
    • Options

  • VertiPaq Analyzer

    • VertiPaq Analyzer
    • Introduction to VertiPaq Analyzer
    • Load VPAX files
    • The Tables page
    • The Columns page
    • The Partitions page
    • The User Hierarchies page
    • The Relationships page
    • The Compression page
    • The Columns Data Types page
    • The Encoding page
    • The DAX Expressions page
    • A real data demo
    • VertiPaq Analyzer vs. DAX Studio

  • Analyze in Excel for Power BI Desktop

    • Analyze in Excel for Power BI Desktop
    • Introduction to Analyze in Excel for Power BI Desktop
    • Trace MDX queries
    • Limitations
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  • Charu Ambekar (Apr 30, 2022)

    Dax.do and Bravo for Power Bi need to be included in this video course new edition.

    • – Hi Charu, We are evaluating that option for Bravo after the first release - coming soon, as the current version is the preview. On the other hand we don’t feel it is relevant for dax.do to be included since it is a playground more than a development tool. Thanks, Claire
      Reply by Claire Costa (May 2, 2022)
  • Charlie Taylor (May 12, 2021)

    Good intro In addition, I'd find it helpful to have more content in the DAX Studio section on building and debugging measures

    • – Thanks for the feedback - the free courses about DAX Tools are intended to describe the features of the products. Currently, we don't have specific content that explains how to leverage DAX Studio to write and debug DAX measures. We plan to expand the offer in the future. In the meantime, you can find a few videos we contributed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU5EQBJDfOM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SV2VnYbgg4
      Reply by SQLBI (May 14, 2021)
  • MICHEL P LOUIS (Dec 31, 2020)

    It is a great short course! Thanks a lot. Are you guys planning to make the same type of course regarding to DAX tools in a longer and paid format? This will be even better. Thanks again