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DAX Basics in

Power BI
In this chapter, you will learn how to use various DAX functions in Power BI.

DAX Introduction
DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) is a formula expression language and can be used
in different BI and visualization tools. DAX is also known as function language, where
the full code is kept inside a function. DAX programming formula contains two data
types: Numeric and Other. Numeric includes - integers, currency and decimals, while
Other includes: string and binary object.

Following is an example of DAX formula, which uses a function to calculate a column


in a table.

DAX function can also include other functions, conditional statements, and value
references.

DAX Functions
In Power BI, you can use different function types to analyze data, and create new
columns and measures. It includes functions from different categories such as −

Aggregate
Text
Date
Logical
Counting
Information

Power BI provides an easy way to see the list of all functions. When you start typing
your function in the formula bar, you can see the list of all functions starting with
that alphabet.

Aggregate Functions

DAX has a number of aggregate functions.

MIN
MAX
Averag
e SUM
SUMX

Counting
Functions

Other
counting
functions in
DAX include
−

DISTINCTCOUNT
COUNT
COUNTA
COUNTROWS
COUNTBLANK
Following are the collection of Logical functions −

AND
OR
NOT
IF
IFER
ROR

TEXT
Functions

REPLACE
SEARCH
UPPER
FIXED
CONCAT
ENATE

DATE
Functions

DATE
HOUR
WEEKDAY
NOW
EOMONT
H

INFORMATI
ON
Functions

ISBLANK
ISNUMBER
ISTEXT
ISNONTEXT
DAX Calculation Types
In Power BI, you can create two primary calculations using DAX −

Calculated columns
Calculated
measures

When you navigate to the Modeling tab, you can see a New Column option at the top
of the screen. This also opens the formula bar where you can enter DAX formula to
perform the calculation. DAX - Data Analysis Expression is a powerful language used
in Excel to perform calculations. You can also rename the column by changing the
Column text in the formula bar.

In the following example, we have created a new column: Product Code (Product_C),
which is derived from the last 3 characters of Prod_Id column. Following is the
formula −

Product_C = RIGHT( Sheet1[Prod_Id],3)

To create a calculated measure, navigate to New Measure tab under Modeling. This
will add a new object under the Fields tab with the name Measure.
You can write DAX formula to calculate the value of the new measure, as we did for
the new calculated column.

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