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From the publisher:

Discover the true power of DAX and build advanced DAX solutions for practical business scenariosKey FeaturesSolve complex business problems within Microsoft BI tools including Power BI, SQL Server, and ExcelDevelop a conceptual understanding of critical business data modeling principlesLearn the subtleties of Power BI data visualizations, evaluation context, context transition, and filteringBook DescriptionThis book helps business analysts generate powerful and sophisticated analyses from their data using DAX and get the most out of Microsoft Business Intelligence tools.Extreme DAX will first

Highlights

  • Heroic DAX is usually a model problem in disguise — Rozema and Vlootman ground every advanced pattern in a sound fact-oriented star schema first; convoluted measures compensating for a broken model are magic covering for missing structure.
  • DAX has formal semantics, not tricks — evaluation context, context transition, and filter propagation form a rule system; once you learn the rules, "extreme" DAX becomes derivable rather than memorized — understanding over copy-paste, the book's explicit stance.
  • The relationship graph does the work — filter context flowing through model relationships is declarative logic: you state the structure once and the engine propagates it, a small-scale demonstration of why declared models beat imperative code.
  • Measures centralize business logic — one definition of a metric, reused across every report, versus per-visual recalculation sprawl; the same single-source-of-truth argument MDDE makes about transformation logic.
  • Conceptual modeling principles anchor the analytics — the authors deliberately teach business data-modeling understanding before language mechanics; a BI book that agrees the durable layer is the model, not the tool version.
  • Real business scenarios drive pattern selection — working backwards from the business problem to model-plus-measure design, rather than forward from language features; requirements-first thinking inside the analytical layer.

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