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.
Mastering DAX is nearly perfect and absolutely essential to understanding DAX. I have not found this level of detail presented so clearly and concisely elsewhere. The 2nd Edition is a great improvement over an already great course. There are many examples of mistakes that you might make. Approaches to each problem are compared and contrasted. This course uses lots of guided critical thinking, which helps you understand the material, not just know it.
Every Excel and Power BI developer must take this course to be able to handle large or complex data sets, otherwise you will waste lots of time coming up with poor solutions.
I recommend that you watch the videos at double speed to get more ideas in your head faster and make more connections between ideas, otherwise each individual idea might come and go.
Matt Ballinger(Jun 5, 2019)
Marco and Alberto have provided tremendous insight into the internal workings of the DAX language in a consumable and powerful course. After taking this course I feel fully equipped to face situations with a stronger understanding of the underlying concepts related to the DAX functions and capabilities. Thanks SQL BI!
youssef zaki(Jun 1, 2019)
Perfect course. can't wait for the next ssas training ! thanks guys for your efforts
Roman Emelyanov(May 12, 2019)
Thank you very much for the Course! It's Great! Labs was interesting and difficult for me. Now I need more practice after it. I think that at this moment I understand more about filter and row context, propagation, date lineage, filtering, querying, relationships. Waiting your new book "The Definitive Guide to DAX" second edition. Thank you again!
Donald Wiesmann(Apr 21, 2019)
thank you very much! very detailed and helpful!
Sergio Murru(Mar 24, 2019)
This course teaches DAX by a theoretical and a practical point of view, clarifying DAX inner working aspects, when needed to understand its behaviour. The teachers' exposition is very clear and their knowledge of the subject is astounding.
Thijs Nijhuis(Feb 1, 2019)
Excellent course! Great balance between theory and practise. The only thing I found hard was to compare my own solution (if different from the given anwer) to yours. I assume my solution would be less good but why? And how would it compare in terms of performance. Perhaps providing different solution would be helpful in that case.
Randy Howard(Jan 5, 2019)
Excellent Course, I have been using Power BI for a few years now and wish I had taken this course from the beginning.... "Would have saved me many sleepless nights"
Jürg Jenny(Jan 2, 2019)
This exceptional course provides 10 hours of high quality video tutorials. All the concepts of DAX are explained in detail and in a comprehensible and pleasant way.
To sum it up: This course the way to go if you want to become a DAX master. Thank you very much for creating such great content!
The only point that could be improved in my opinion: Provide more exercises. The contained labs are very good and I think working through them helps the most to really learn the DAX language. But there are so many functions introduced in the course that are not used in the labs. Having a larger set of exercises (including the solutions) would help to dive even deeper in the DAX world.
Apart from that: GREAT WORK!
Pablo Amuchastegui(Jan 1, 2019)
Excellent course!
Asier Barbarin(Dec 11, 2018)
Excellent. It helped me a lot to understand key concepts
Yadhuram MC(Nov 30, 2018)
This is Awesome. This would be like a Bible of DAX and I will refer this always
Garth Zoller(Nov 25, 2018)
Before the course, I knew nothing about coding in DAX. The course instructors and content were clear, relevant, and accommodated a variety of skill levels. Also, the labs are helpful to practice and recall what I learned. After completing the course, I am already using DAX to solve common data challenges.
Chidiebere Agbara(Nov 13, 2018)
I enjoyed the DAX programming.
Shivakumar Konar(Sep 23, 2018)
This course is absolutely brilliant and covers all the topics of DAX in depth. The lectures very quickly go into advanced mode right from the word go, so this is not something you can just watch on the go. You truly have to get your hands dirty and watch all the videos multiple times(I am on 4th iteration :D).
What makes this course more valuable is ablility to get in touch with Marco & Alberto. Marco has helped me solve so many problems, not just the ones mentioned in the course, any real life problem you encounter, Marco was able to solve it and give the approach of solving the problem.
Moreover, I was able to clear the Micro 70-778 exam. Although this course does not cover all the sections required to clear the 70-778 exam, but it definitely covers the largest section relating to DAX.
Thanks Marco & Alberto for putting this course together
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!