Chapter 12Working with tables

Tables are an important part of DAX formulas. In previous chapters you learned how to iterate over tables, how to create calculated tables, and how to perform several other calculation techniques that require a table as their starting point. Moreover, CALCULATE filter arguments are tables: When authoring complex formulas, an ability to build the correct filter table is of paramount importance. DAX offers a rich set of functions to manage tables. In this chapter we introduce many DAX functions that are helpful for creating and managing tables.

For most of the new functions, we provide some examples that are useful for two purposes: They show how to use the function, and they act as a good DAX exercise to understand ...

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