FPBIPT #58 - 5 Things You Need to Know When Learning DAX

When learning DAX you will soon discover, that it is both, “easy, but hard” (© Alberto Ferrari).

On the one hand, the syntax of this language is very close to Excel formulas and easy to understand. On the other hand, the semantic of some functions is very challenging.

In this talk Markus will share the challenges he faced when learning the language and how overcame them. You will get a proper understanding of the differences between calculated columns and measures and you will learn of the concept of context and how to manipulate the context to achieve advanced calculations.

About the speaker:

### Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen

Markus Ehrenmüller-Jensen is the founder of Savory Data and works as a project leader, data engineer and BI architect since 1994. He is an educated software-engineer, graduated business educator and professor for databases and project engineering at HTL Leonding (technical college) and certified as MCSE Data Platform and MCSE Business Intelligence. Markus speaks regularly on international conferences (eg. SQL PASS Summit, SQLBits London, Power Platform Worldtour, SQL Saturdays, SQL Days, SQL PASS Austria, ...) and writes articles for well-known journals. In 2013 he co-founded SQL PASS Austria and in 2016 Power Platform Usergroup Austria (both were merged into Data Community Austria in 2021) and organizes Data Community Austria (fka. SQL Saturdays & Data Saturdays) in Vienna since 2014. For his technical leadership in the community he was awarded repeatedly as a Microsoft Data Platform MVP since 2017.

About the event:

• All presented times are Lisbon Time
• Meetup will be hosted in English

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.