{"id":2322,"date":"2020-03-30T20:14:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portfolio.accrualhub.com\/powergi2\/?p=70"},"modified":"2022-07-26T08:42:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T08:42:26","slug":"bi-with-ms-excel-what-is-dax-and-where-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powergi.net\/de\/blog\/bi-with-ms-excel-what-is-dax-and-where-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is DAX and Where to Start?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You may be missing out a lot of powerful Excel functionality if you are still not using Power Pivot or \u201cExcel data model\u201d, as it has been described since the release of Excel 2016. By using Power Pivot, you also avoid some of the traditional limitations such as row limits in sheets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We wanted to post a small entry about this topic and explain in a very quick way, terms that may be new to some of the daily excel users. Power Pivot started as a downloadable add-in for Excel since the 2010 version and was finally included as part of the product since Excel 2016.<\/p>

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Automatisieren Sie Aufgaben, die Sie verlangsamen<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Geben Sie Ihrem Team mehr Zeit und erm\u00f6glichen Sie ihm, sich auf strategische Aufgaben zu konzentrieren, dank digitaler und robotergest\u00fctzter Automatisierung.<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Awesome, but what is DAX? <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

DAX stands for Data Analysis Expressions<\/strong><\/em> and it\u2019s the programming language of Power Pivot, Power BI and SQL Server Analysis Services, meaning you can add 1-3 amazing products to your business intelligence toolkit by learning one language.
Dax is not like other programming languages; it is a functional<\/em><\/strong> language meaning that is made of function calls, like Excel, you write a formula that receives parameters and you can also call other functions or formulas from within.
In DAX there is no concept of loops, statements and jumps. Is all made of expressions, so this may be the challenging part for those with programming backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who is DAX for?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n