Mastering DAX Video Course

This is the video course version of the Mastering DAX workshop.
DAX is the native language of Power BI, Power Pivot for Excel, and SSAS Tabular models in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. The training is aimed at users of Power BI, Power Pivot for Excel, and at Analysis Services developers that want to learn and master the DAX language.

The goal of the course is to teach all the features of DAX, providing the knowledge to write formulas for common and advanced business scenarios. The video course is made up of over 15 hours of lectures, plus another 15-20 hours of individual exercises. You can watch the videos at anytime and the system will keep track of your progress. Within the course you can download the material for all the exercises.

Students have access to a private discussion area where they can interact with the instructors asking questions related to the lectures and the exercises.

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  • Presentation of Mastering DAX 2nd Edition

    • Presentation of Mastering DAX 2nd Edition
      FREE
  • Exercises, labs, slides, and demos

    • Exercises, labs, slides, and demos
      FREE
    • How to download and complete exercises
      FREE
    • Download exercises
    • Download demos
    • Slides of the video course
  • Introduction to DAX

    • Introduction to DAX
      FREE
    • What is DAX?
      FREE
    • DAX data types
      FREE
    • Calculated columns
      FREE
    • Measures
      FREE
    • Aggregation functions
    • Counting values
    • Conditional functions
    • Handling errors
    • Using variables
    • Mathematical functions
    • Relational functions
    • Exercises
      FREE
    • Exercises solutions
      Added Nov 20, 2020

      • Exercises solutions
      • 02.10 - Average sales per customer
      • 02.20 - Average delivery time
      • 02.50 - Last update of customer
      • 02.40 - Working days
      • 02.30 - Discount categories
  • Table functions

    • Table functions
      FREE
    • Introduction to table functions
    • Filtering a table
    • Ignoring filters
    • Mixing filters
    • Distinct
    • How many values for a column
    • ALLSELECTED
    • RELATEDTABLE
    • Tables and relationships
    • Tables with one row and one column
    • Table variables
    • Exercises
      FREE
    • Exercises solutions
      Added Nov 20, 2020

      • Exercises solutions
      • 03.20 - Percentage of sales
      • 03.10 - Delivery working days
      • 03.40 - Sales of products in the first week
      • 03.30 - Customers with children
  • Evaluation contexts

    • Evaluation contexts
      FREE
    • Introduction to evaluation contexts
    • Filter context
    • Row context
    • Context errors
    • Filtering a table
    • Using RELATED in a row context
    • Ranking by price
    • Evaluation contexts and relationships
    • Filters and relationships
    • Exercises
      FREE
    • Exercises solutions
      Added Nov 20, 2020

      • Exercises solutions
      • 04.10 - Nested iterators
      • 04.20 - Customers in North America
      • 05.10 - Create a parameter table
  • The CALCULATE function

    • The CALCULATE function
      FREE
    • CALCULATE
    • CALCULATE examples
    • CALCULATE recap
    • What is a filter context?
    • KEEPFILTERS
    • CALCULATE operators
    • Use one column only in compact syntax
    • Variables and evaluation contexts
    • Exercises
      FREE
    • Exercises solutions
      Added Nov 20, 2020

      • Exercises solutions
      • 05.05 - Sales of red and blue products
      • 05.20 - Understanding CALCULATE
      • 05.25 - Sales of blue products
      • 05.15 - Computing percentages
  • Advanced evaluation contexts

    • Advanced evaluation contexts
      FREE
    • CALCULATE modifiers
    • USERELATIONSHIP
    • CROSSFILTER
    • ALL
    • ALLSELECTED
    • KEEPFILTERS
      FREE
    • Context transition
    • Context transition /2
    • Circular dependency
    • CALCULATE execution order
    • Exercises
      FREE
    • Exercises solutions
      Added Nov 20, 2020

      • Exercises solutions
      • 05.35 - Correct sales of grey products
      • 05.40 - Best customers
      • 05.45 - Customers buying many products
      • 05.50 - Large sales
      • 05.30 - Percentage of customers
      • 05.55 - Counting spikes
  • Iterators

    • Iterators
      FREE
    • Working with iterators
    • MINX and MAXX
    • Useful iterators
    • RANKX
    • ISINSCOPE
    • Exercises
      FREE
    • Exercises solutions
      Added Nov 20, 2020

      • Exercises solutions
      • 07.10 - Ranking customers (static)
      • 07.20 - Ranking customers (dynamic)
      • 07.30 - Date with the highest sales
      • 07.40 - Moving average
  • Building a date table

    • Building a date table
      FREE
    • Introduction to date table
    • Auto Date/Time
    • CALENDARAUTO
    • Mark as date table
    • Using multiple dates
  • Time intelligence in DAX

    • Time intelligence in DAX
      FREE
    • What is time intelligence?
      FREE
    • Time intelligence functions
      FREE
    • DATEADD
    • DATESINPERIOD
    • Running total
    • Mixing time intelligence functions
    • Semi-additive measures
    • Calculations over weeks
    • Exercises
      FREE
    • Exercises solutions
      Added Nov 20, 2020

      • Exercises solutions
      • 08.10 - Running total
      • 08.20 - Comparison YOY%
      • 08.30 - Sales in first three months
      • 08.40 - Semi-additive calculations
  • Hierarchies in DAX

    • Hierarchies in DAX
      FREE
    • What are hierarchies?
    • FILTER and CROSSFILTER
    • Percentages over hierarchies
    • Parent-child hierarchies
  • Querying with DAX

    • Querying with DAX
      FREE
    • Working with tables and queries
    • EVALUATE
    • CALCULATETABLE
    • SELECTCOLUMNS
    • SUMMARIZE
    • SUMMARIZECOLUMNS
    • CROSSJOIN
    • TOPN and GENERATE
    • ROW and DATATABLE
    • Tables and relationships
    • UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT
    • GROUPBY
    • Query measures
    • Exercises
      FREE
    • Exercises solutions
      Added Nov 20, 2020

      • Exercises solutions
      • 13.10 - Sales by year
      • 13.20 - Filtering and grouping sales
      • 13.30 - Using TOPN and GENERATE
      • 13.40 - Sales to top customers
      • 13.50 - Sales of top three colors
  • Data lineage and TREATAS

    • Data lineage and TREATAS
      FREE
    • What is data lineage?
    • TREATAS
  • Expanded tables

    • Expanded tables
      FREE
    • Filters are tables
    • Difference between base tables and expanded tables
    • Filtering a column
    • Exercises
      FREE
    • Exercises solutions
      Added Nov 20, 2020

      • Exercises solutions
      • 14.10 - Distinct count of countries
      • 14.20 - Sales quantity greater than two
  • Arbitrarily shaped filters

    • Arbitrarily shaped filters
      FREE
    • What are arbitrarily shaped filters?
    • Example of an arbitrarily shaped filter
  • ALLSELECTED and shadow filter contexts

    • ALLSELECTED and shadow filter contexts
      FREE
    • ALLSELECTED
    • Shadow filter contexts
  • Segmentation

    • Segmentation
      FREE
    • Static segmentation
    • Circular dependency in calculated tables
    • Dynamic segmentation
    • Exercises
      FREE
    • Exercises solutions
      Added Nov 20, 2020

      • Exercises solutions
      • 15.10 - Static segmentation
  • Many-to-many relationships

    • Many-to-many relationships
      FREE
    • How to handle many-to-many relationships
    • Bidirectional filtering
    • Expanded table filtering
    • Comparison of the different techniques
    • Exercises
      FREE
    • Exercises solutions
      Added Nov 20, 2020

      • Exercises solutions
      • 15.30 - Many-to-many relationships
  • Ambiguity and bidirectional filters

    • Ambiguity and bidirectional filters
      FREE
    • Understanding ambiguity
      FREE
  • Relationships at different granularities

    • Relationships at different granularities
      FREE
    • Working at different granularity
    • Using TREATAS
    • Calculated tables to slice dimensions
    • Leveraging weak relationships
    • Scenario recap
    • Checking granularity in the report
    • Hiding or reallocating
  • Additional exercises

    • Exercises
      FREE
    • Exercises solutions
      Added Nov 20, 2020

      • Exercises solutions
      • 14.30 - Same product sales
      • 14.40 - Commentary on report
      • 15.20 - New customers
  • Calculation groups

    • Calculation groups
      FREE
    • Introducing calculation groups
      FREE
    • Basic measures
    • Calculation items are patterns
    • Creating calculation groups
    • Changing the format string
    • Excluding specific measures
    • Using calculation items in DAX
    • Calculation item application
    • Calculation items on complex expressions
    • Multiple calculation groups in a report
    • Understanding precedence in calculation groups
    • Reusing calculation items
    • Recursion and best practices
    • Exercises
      FREE
    • Exercises solutions
      Added Nov 20, 2020

      • Exercises solutions
      • 09.10 - Time calculations
      • 09.20 - Multiple calculation groups
      • 09.30 - Sold versus delivered
      • 09.40 - Min, Max and Avg calculation group
      • 09.50 - Top and bottom products
Student Rating
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579 ratings
5-star Reviews (276 of 308)
  • Dramane Bio SALIFOU (May 17, 2020)

    Great course ! This course deserves to read more and more as DAX coding reference and to be recommending to all the Power BI learner. Thank you so much for your teaching.

  • Cekou Coulibaly (May 8, 2020)

    An absolutely amazing course. Well designed Well explained Well delivered Well everything. Can't wait to delve into what's coming next.

  • Pedro Junqueira (Apr 13, 2020)

    When it comes to DAX Marco and Alberto are the real maestros. They are the author of the "DAX Bible" (Definitive Guide to Dax) which is the base of this course. There are other good DAX instructors out there but I have not found anyone that know about DAX inside out as them. The Mastering DAX goes really deep in the fundamentals of DAX and both instructors are very clear on the theory and practical examples that you need to know to master the language. I am very satisfied with this course and it really improved my knowledge and power when it comes to solving business problems by creating BI reports. I highly recommend this course.

  • James Gourley (Apr 10, 2020)

    This course is unbelievably good. I'm so impressed with Marco & Alberto's ability to take extremely complex topics and explain them in an understandable way.

  • Koen de Witte (Apr 8, 2020)

    Fantastic. So happy I chose this course, it was well worth it! What I especially liked was the fact that 90% of the lectures was spent hands-on in PowerBI, writing DAX, looking at the result, seeing what works, what not and why not, improving the code, this way giving you the understanding you need... Also, none of the video of the lectures were edited. They're all single takes, which showed how much teaching experience and confidence Marco and Roberto have. it made everything a much more natural and valuable experience than a lot of other paid online material.

  • Cosmin Ioan (Apr 6, 2020)

    the bestest course! :-) seriously, top notch!

  • MARCO BAJAÑA (Mar 31, 2020)

    Excellent course congratulations to everyone keep me informed of new features. Very soon I will continue with other courses with you. Greetings Marco Bajana

  • Floris Lemkes (Mar 20, 2020)

    Very nice and helpful!

  • Santosh Raghunath (Mar 13, 2020)

    Marco and Alberto, I want to thank you both for such a wonderful course. I completed the first one and updating myself with this one also. I could clear the Microsoft certification for Power BI. Thank you so much. You guys are amazing. I truly recommend this course to all Power BI users.

  • andre meyer (Mar 4, 2020)

    Thank you Marco and Alberto, this course is obviously the best around, for the content, of course, but I also very much enjoy the 2-person animation and the large number of exercises (from an instructional design point of view, a very well-built course).

  • Sira Ekabut (Feb 16, 2020)

    i get additional insights every time i watch this course

  • Hypatia Rojas (Feb 12, 2020)

    Excellent work

  • Doru Imbroane (Feb 9, 2020)

    Excellent! Any other adjective would not describe the quality of this course. I would suggest nevertheless that you introduce "exam"-like exercises (that are not joined by solutions) and are graded. This indeed will guarantee an in-depth knowledge of the material covered.

    • Thanks for the suggestion! While we prioritize the production of content and tools for learning, certification is a process that is not currently in our goals. We do have a self-assessment exam to review pre-requisites for Optimizing DAX (did you try it?) and we would like to extend that approach further, rather than provide a certification assessment. We will consider your and others' feedback in our future plans!
      Reply by SQLBI (Feb 10, 2020)
  • Abhijith DSouza (Feb 4, 2020)

    Fantastic course by Marco and Alberto covering all aspects of DAX and complex Power BI models. The best part of the course is that they not only teach you what is best practice but also tell you what not to do and why you shouldnt it as well. Highly recommend if you want to master DAX.

  • Alexander Feygin (Jan 24, 2020)

    Definetely this's the example of how on-line video course shoud be made. It's up-to-date, includes professianally made support materials (demo files, slides, exercise book), covers deep theoretical nuances of dax logic (which is the foudation of your ability to write and uderstand how code works). At the same time, there's a huge amount of sophisticated exercises (especially advanced section) that helps you to get practical skills. Also, thanks a lot for your blog and tools like dax formatter. Your blog posts should become the next step in learning all the technics and nuances of dax language and proper data modeling.

Would you prefer a classroom course?

This video course is based on a classroom course we teach all around the world. If you prefer a classroom learning experience, take a look at the dates below for a list of our upcoming classroom courses!
2024
 Copenhagen, DK Dec 2-4, 2024
Copenhagen
2025
 Amsterdam, NL Feb 11-13, 2025
Amsterdam
 Phoenix (Tempe), AZ, US Feb 18-20, 2025
Phoenix
 Dallas, TX, US Feb 24-26, 2025
Dallas