DAX Series: 2. Resources/Learning Techniques while learning DAX

This is the second article of the series: DAX Series — Learn the core of Power BI. 2. Resources/Learning Techniques while learning DAX.

(You can also find the article on my website together with other articles and more interesting things)

In this article I will give out different resources and learning techniques while learning the DAX language. This will be a list of resources I would like to have when I began to learn DAX and describe the language in a good way.
It is a mix of blogs, Youtube-channels and books.

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Learning Techniques for learning DAX

It is important to acknowledge that people approach new things in different ways.

Some people like to read, some people like to watch Youtube videos or take online courses, some people must try out the tools to understand new things and even some people must discuss it with other people to understand new things.

I think all of these are good ways to learn DAX and all of them have their place, therefore I will discuss all of these different resources in this post.

No matter which way you go about it, theory a very important part of learning DAX. Therefore I would not recommend to only try out the tool by hand and try to learn that way. The error messages can be hard to understand, and you do not really know if you have something a little bit wrong but still works, or if you have the correct answer.

My first suggestion would either to buy a book about the theory behind DAX or watch a very detailed video/online course about it. I will discuss exactly which people/companies that offers this but SQLBI is a very good way to begin.

If you choose to buy a book, try to read a little bit every day, and do try out the things you read in Power BI as well, to be able to replicate it and really understand what the the text is saying.

One good way to learn things is by write down everything that you find interesting. You do both remember things better by writing it down and you will have something to read through again when you want to do a recap of what you have learned.