Mastering DAX Video Course
This is the video course version of the Mastering DAX workshop.
DAX is the native language of Power BI, Power Pivot for Excel, and SSAS Tabular models in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. The training is aimed at users of Power BI, Power Pivot for Excel, and at Analysis Services developers that want to learn and master the DAX language.
The goal of the course is to teach all the features of DAX, providing the knowledge to write formulas for common and advanced business scenarios. The video course is made up of over 15 hours of lectures, plus another 15-20 hours of individual exercises. You can watch the videos at anytime and the system will keep track of your progress. Within the course you can download the material for all the exercises.
Students have access to a private discussion area where they can interact with the instructors asking questions related to the lectures and the exercises.
Curriculum
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Presentation of Mastering DAX 2nd Edition
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Presentation of Mastering DAX 2nd Edition
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Presentation of Mastering DAX 2nd Edition
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Exercises, labs, slides, and demos
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Exercises, labs, slides, and demos
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How to download and complete exercises
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- Download exercises
- Download demos
- Slides of the video course
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Exercises, labs, slides, and demos
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Introduction to DAX
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Introduction to DAX
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What is DAX?
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DAX data types
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Calculated columns
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Measures
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- Aggregation functions
- Counting values
- Conditional functions
- Handling errors
- Using variables
- Mathematical functions
- Relational functions
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Exercises
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Exercises solutions
Added Nov 20, 2020- Exercises solutions
- 02.10 - Average sales per customer
- 02.20 - Average delivery time
- 02.50 - Last update of customer
- 02.40 - Working days
- 02.30 - Discount categories
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Introduction to DAX
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Table functions
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Table functions
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- Introduction to table functions
- Filtering a table
- Ignoring filters
- Mixing filters
- Distinct
- How many values for a column
- ALLSELECTED
- RELATEDTABLE
- Tables and relationships
- Tables with one row and one column
- Table variables
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Exercises
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Exercises solutions
Added Nov 20, 2020- Exercises solutions
- 03.20 - Percentage of sales
- 03.10 - Delivery working days
- 03.40 - Sales of products in the first week
- 03.30 - Customers with children
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Table functions
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Evaluation contexts
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Evaluation contexts
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- Introduction to evaluation contexts
- Filter context
- Row context
- Context errors
- Filtering a table
- Using RELATED in a row context
- Ranking by price
- Evaluation contexts and relationships
- Filters and relationships
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Exercises
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Exercises solutions
Added Nov 20, 2020- Exercises solutions
- 04.10 - Nested iterators
- 04.20 - Customers in North America
- 05.10 - Create a parameter table
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Evaluation contexts
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The CALCULATE function
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The CALCULATE function
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- CALCULATE
- CALCULATE examples
- CALCULATE recap
- What is a filter context?
- KEEPFILTERS
- CALCULATE operators
- Use one column only in compact syntax
- Variables and evaluation contexts
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Exercises
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Exercises solutions
Added Nov 20, 2020- Exercises solutions
- 05.05 - Sales of red and blue products
- 05.20 - Understanding CALCULATE
- 05.25 - Sales of blue products
- 05.15 - Computing percentages
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The CALCULATE function
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Advanced evaluation contexts
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Advanced evaluation contexts
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- CALCULATE modifiers
- USERELATIONSHIP
- CROSSFILTER
- ALL
- ALLSELECTED
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KEEPFILTERS
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- Context transition
- Context transition /2
- Circular dependency
- CALCULATE execution order
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Exercises
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Exercises solutions
Added Nov 20, 2020- Exercises solutions
- 05.35 - Correct sales of grey products
- 05.40 - Best customers
- 05.45 - Customers buying many products
- 05.50 - Large sales
- 05.30 - Percentage of customers
- 05.55 - Counting spikes
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Advanced evaluation contexts
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Iterators
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Iterators
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- Working with iterators
- MINX and MAXX
- Useful iterators
- RANKX
- ISINSCOPE
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Exercises
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Exercises solutions
Added Nov 20, 2020- Exercises solutions
- 07.10 - Ranking customers (static)
- 07.20 - Ranking customers (dynamic)
- 07.30 - Date with the highest sales
- 07.40 - Moving average
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Iterators
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Building a date table
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Building a date table
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- Introduction to date table
- Auto Date/Time
- CALENDARAUTO
- Mark as date table
- Using multiple dates
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Building a date table
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Time intelligence in DAX
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Time intelligence in DAX
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What is time intelligence?
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Time intelligence functions
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- DATEADD
- DATESINPERIOD
- Running total
- Mixing time intelligence functions
- Semi-additive measures
- Calculations over weeks
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Exercises
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Exercises solutions
Added Nov 20, 2020- Exercises solutions
- 08.10 - Running total
- 08.20 - Comparison YOY%
- 08.30 - Sales in first three months
- 08.40 - Semi-additive calculations
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Time intelligence in DAX
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Hierarchies in DAX
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Hierarchies in DAX
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- What are hierarchies?
- FILTER and CROSSFILTER
- Percentages over hierarchies
- Parent-child hierarchies
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Hierarchies in DAX
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Querying with DAX
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Querying with DAX
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- Working with tables and queries
- EVALUATE
- CALCULATETABLE
- SELECTCOLUMNS
- SUMMARIZE
- SUMMARIZECOLUMNS
- CROSSJOIN
- TOPN and GENERATE
- ROW and DATATABLE
- Tables and relationships
- UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT
- GROUPBY
- Query measures
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Exercises
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Exercises solutions
Added Nov 20, 2020- Exercises solutions
- 13.10 - Sales by year
- 13.20 - Filtering and grouping sales
- 13.30 - Using TOPN and GENERATE
- 13.40 - Sales to top customers
- 13.50 - Sales of top three colors
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Querying with DAX
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Data lineage and TREATAS
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Data lineage and TREATAS
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- What is data lineage?
- TREATAS
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Data lineage and TREATAS
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Expanded tables
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Expanded tables
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- Filters are tables
- Difference between base tables and expanded tables
- Filtering a column
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Exercises
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Exercises solutions
Added Nov 20, 2020- Exercises solutions
- 14.10 - Distinct count of countries
- 14.20 - Sales quantity greater than two
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Expanded tables
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Arbitrarily shaped filters
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Arbitrarily shaped filters
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- What are arbitrarily shaped filters?
- Example of an arbitrarily shaped filter
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Arbitrarily shaped filters
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ALLSELECTED and shadow filter contexts
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ALLSELECTED and shadow filter contexts
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- ALLSELECTED
- Shadow filter contexts
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ALLSELECTED and shadow filter contexts
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Segmentation
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Segmentation
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- Static segmentation
- Circular dependency in calculated tables
- Dynamic segmentation
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Exercises
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Exercises solutions
Added Nov 20, 2020- Exercises solutions
- 15.10 - Static segmentation
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Segmentation
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Many-to-many relationships
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Many-to-many relationships
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- How to handle many-to-many relationships
- Bidirectional filtering
- Expanded table filtering
- Comparison of the different techniques
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Exercises
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Exercises solutions
Added Nov 20, 2020- Exercises solutions
- 15.30 - Many-to-many relationships
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Many-to-many relationships
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Ambiguity and bidirectional filters
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Ambiguity and bidirectional filters
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Understanding ambiguity
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Ambiguity and bidirectional filters
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Relationships at different granularities
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Relationships at different granularities
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- Working at different granularity
- Using TREATAS
- Calculated tables to slice dimensions
- Leveraging weak relationships
- Scenario recap
- Checking granularity in the report
- Hiding or reallocating
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Relationships at different granularities
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Additional exercises
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Exercises
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Exercises solutions
Added Nov 20, 2020- Exercises solutions
- 14.30 - Same product sales
- 14.40 - Commentary on report
- 15.20 - New customers
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Exercises
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Calculation groups
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Calculation groups
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Introducing calculation groups
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- Basic measures
- Calculation items are patterns
- Creating calculation groups
- Changing the format string
- Excluding specific measures
- Using calculation items in DAX
- Calculation item application
- Calculation items on complex expressions
- Multiple calculation groups in a report
- Understanding precedence in calculation groups
- Reusing calculation items
- Recursion and best practices
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Exercises
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Exercises solutions
Added Nov 20, 2020- Exercises solutions
- 09.10 - Time calculations
- 09.20 - Multiple calculation groups
- 09.30 - Sold versus delivered
- 09.40 - Min, Max and Avg calculation group
- 09.50 - Top and bottom products
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Calculation groups
Training Platform
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- Alejandro Rodriguez (Oct 30, 2020)
Excelent course, very complete and a very good to support material to check everytime when you have some doubts.
- Ahmad Hassan Khan (Oct 22, 2020)
Great learning experience! Enjoyed every bit of it.
- Ariel Bosano (Oct 21, 2020)
Great Material, and a great way to learn all the DAX fundamentals. I've enjoyed every piece of material given by Marco and Alberto. Even though this course includes almost everything about DAX functions and concepts, the book is much more complex and complete compared to this course. Think of this course as an introduction and to be able to understand the book even faster.
- Ronald op den Buijs (Oct 17, 2020)
A practical and useful course to learn DAX. The mix of video and exercises makes that I really experienced the complexity of learning DAX code. The demos and exercises are useful to making DAX code for reports at work.
- Ron van der Laan (Oct 10, 2020)
I have learned very much in this course and also in the classroom course in Amterdam. If you want to learn Dax this is the address.
- Rubens Maia (Sep 29, 2020)
Excellent content. Very heavy, so you cannot rush through it. But the quality is outstanding, and support is also great.
- Vyacheslav Ilnytskyy (Sep 14, 2020)
Amazing course. Information provided in a very dense manner so it does require revisiting multiple times later. And I can say that once again, doing book and course in parallel is a great experience. Thank you very much. I just wish there were demo and exercises files for Calculated Groups.
- Wout Kattenpoel (Sep 14, 2020)
Great course with a great attention to detail and a easy to follow step-wise learning module. The explanations of the presenters are very clear. The excercises however often included subjects and code of future lectures, that made some excercises nearly impossible to solve with the current knowledge. This demotivates a bit, as solving excercises correctly makes you want to continue, whereas continuous struggling with the excerices is a tad annoying.
- – Hi Wout, just a clarification: the Advanced exercise we have in the initial chapters have been included for people who start the course with existing knowledge of DAX. For this reason, they have additional prerequisites. Only the Basic exercise should be completed with the knowledge provided in each section, the Advanced one should be considered optional. We included them because we had the request for more challenging exercises in the initial sections.
However, we have to better explain this in the video course, we are working on that and it should be fixed soon.
Thanks for your feedback!
Reply by SQLBI (Sep 15, 2020)
- – Hi Wout, just a clarification: the Advanced exercise we have in the initial chapters have been included for people who start the course with existing knowledge of DAX. For this reason, they have additional prerequisites. Only the Basic exercise should be completed with the knowledge provided in each section, the Advanced one should be considered optional. We included them because we had the request for more challenging exercises in the initial sections.
However, we have to better explain this in the video course, we are working on that and it should be fixed soon.
Thanks for your feedback!
- Fabricio Mendes (Sep 7, 2020)
The course is excellent and gave you a complete view of DAX. I believe it would be important to talk about M, then it would be a deep insight into Power BI
- Sergio Siffredi (Aug 24, 2020)
excellent training and awesome trainers
- Santosh Raghunath (Aug 22, 2020)
Marco and Alberto are Amazing. Explaining DAX is not easy. Marco and Alberto make it easy for understanding. Exercises provided are super amazing. Makes you think hard and this, in turn, helps you grow. On the other hand, Sergio quickly replies back to your discussions with appropriate answers. By the time we finish the course, we feel like a family. Family of DAX. Thank you.
- CARLOS A. CABRERA QUIROGA (Aug 19, 2020)
Gran curso Alberto y Marco, dominan DAX y su forma de enseñar es bastante buena.
- Yael Amitay - Preiss (Aug 19, 2020)
thanks a lot! it was a great course!
- Andradhige Tharindhu Anuradha (Aug 17, 2020)
Finally I am done. Learned a lot of DAX concepts. Thanks
- Ka Ly (Aug 14, 2020)
Absolutely wonderful course. Alberto and Marco are Professionals at the highest level with the ability to teach highly complex topics in DAX. I will have to watch this course and review the book several times to get all the knowledge that they are presenting. I highly recommend this course for all Power BI users. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
Would you prefer a classroom course?
This video course is based on a classroom course we teach all around the world. If you prefer a classroom learning experience, take a look at the dates below for a list of our upcoming classroom courses!
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Aug 2-4, 2021 |
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Oct 19-21, 2021 |
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Oct 25-27, 2021 |
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Nov 16-18, 2021 |