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DAX Cookbook

You're reading from   DAX Cookbook Over 120 recipes to enhance your business with analytics, reporting, and business intelligence

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839217074
Length 552 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Greg Deckler Greg Deckler
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Thinking in DAX 2. Dealing with Dates and Calendars FREE CHAPTER 3. Tangling with Time and Duration 4. Transforming Text and Numbers 5. Figuring Financial Rates and Revenues 6. Computing Customer KPIs 7. Evaluating Employment Measures 8. Processing Project Performance 9. Calculating Common Industry Metrics 10. Using Uncommon DAX Patterns 11. Solving Statistical and Mathematical Formulas 12. Applying Advanced DAX Patterns 13. Debugging and Optimizing DAX 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Handling errors with other DAX functions

As with any programming language, coding DAX calculations will inevitably result in an error being generated. While error handling in DAX is perhaps not quite as mature and robust as some other programming languages, DAX does provide some basic capabilities for handling errors within DAX code. A certain, limited number of DAX functions include internal error checking, and this recipe demonstrates using the built-in error checking provided by these special DAX functions.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, perform the following steps:

  1. Open Power BI Desktop.
  2. Use an Enter Data query to create a table called R02_Table with the following data:

Color

Value

Red

0

Green...

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