DAX Cookbook

Solve real-world business problems by learning how to create common industry key performance indicators and other calculations using DAX within Microsoft products such as Power BI SQL Server and Excel.Key FeaturesLearn to write sophisticated DAX queries to solve business intelligence and data analytics challengesHandle performance issues and optimization within the data model DAX calculations and moreSolve business issues with Microsoft Excel Power BI and SQL Server using DAX queriesBook DescriptionDAX provides an extra edge by extracting key information from the data that is already present in your model. Filled with examples of practical real-world calculations geared toward business metrics and key performance indicators this cookbook features solutions that you can apply for your own business analysis needs.Youll learn to write various DAX expressions and functions to understand how DAX queries work. The book also covers sections on dates time and duration to help you deal with working days time zones and shifts. Youll then discover how to manipulate text and numbers to create dynamic titles and ranks and deal with measure totals. Later youll explore common business metrics for finance customers employees and projects. The book will also show you how to implement common industry metrics such as days of supply mean time between failure order cycle time and overall equipment effectiveness. In the concluding chapters youll learn to apply statistical formulas for covariance kurtosis and skewness. Finally youll explore advanced DAX patterns for interpolation inverse aggregators inverse slicers and even forecasting with a deseasonalized correlation coefficient.By the end of this book youll have the skills you need to use DAXs functionality and flexibility in business intelligence and data analytics.What you will learnUnderstand how to create common calculations for dates time and durationCreate key performance indicators (KPIs) and other business calculationsDevelop general DAX calculations that deal with text and numbersDiscover new ideas and time-saving techniques for better calculations and modelsPerform advanced DAX calculations for solving statistical measures and other mathematical formulasHandle errors in DAX and learn how to debug DAX calculationsUnderstand how to optimize your data modelsWho this book is forBusiness users BI developers data analysts and SQL users who are looking for solutions to the challenges faced while solving analytical operations using DAX techniques and patterns will find this book useful. Basic knowledge of the DAX language and Microsoft services is mandatory.