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SOME

COMMONLY DAX
FUNCTIONS
ASKED IN POWER
BI INTERVIEW

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@PREMMANDAL
BUSINESS & DATA ANALYST
There are some commonly used DAX functions in
Power BI, asked in many interviews.

TIME INTELLIGENCE FUNCTIONS:

• PREVIOUSMONTH: Provides a table of dates for the preceding


month.
• DATESINPERIOD: Retrieves a range of dates for a specified time
frame.
• PARALLELPERIOD: Shifts dates backward or forward by a set
number of intervals.
• TOTALQTD: Computes the cumulative value for the quarter-to-
date.
• CLOSINGBALANCEMONTH: Determines the closing balance for a
designated month.
• DATESYTD: Calculates the year-to-date dates.
• SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR: Returns a table that contains a column
of dates shifted one year back in time.

PREM MANDAL
FILTER FUNCTIONS:

• FILTER: Produces a table representing a subset of another table


or expression.
• ALL: Clears all filters applied to a table or column.
• ALLSELECTED: Returns all the rows in a table or all the values in a
column ignoring any filters that might have been applied inside the
query.
• CALCULATE: Evaluates an expression in a modified filter context.
• REMOVEFILTERS: Clears filters from the specified columns or
tables.
• RELATED: Fetches a value from a related table connected to the
current one.
• RELATEDTABLE: Retrieves a table linked to the current table
through a relationship.

PREM MANDAL
TEXT FUNCTIONS:

• FIND: Locates the starting position of one text string within


another.
• SUBSTITUTE: Substitutes specified substrings within a text
string with other substrings.
• FORMAT: Formats a value according to a specified format.
• LEN: Calculates the number of characters in a text string.
• MID: Extracts a specified number of characters from a text
string starting from a defined position.
• CONCATENATEX: Concatenates the results of an expression
evaluated over a table.
• UPPER: Converts a text string to uppercase.
• LOWER: Converts a text string to lowercase.

PREM MANDAL
CONVERSION FUNCTIONS:

• DATEVALUE: Converts a text-based date into a date format.


• TIMEVALUE: Converts text-based time into a time format.
• VALUE: Transforms a text string representing a number into
a numerical value.
• NUMBERVALUE: Converts a text string that represents a
number into a number, using specified decimal and group
separators.

PREM MANDAL
RELATIONSHIP FUNCTIONS:

• USERELATIONSHIP: Specifies a relationship to be used in a


calculation.
• CROSSFILTER: Modifies how filters are applied across relationships
in calculations.
• RELATEDTABLE: Retrieves a table related to the current table
through a relationship.
• LOOKUPVALUE: Returns a single value from a related table.
• DISTINCTCOUNT: Returns the distinct count of values in a column

PREM MANDAL
DATA MODELING FUNCTIONS:

• DATATABLE: Creates an in-memory table from a list of column


definitions.
• ADDCOLUMNS: Adds calculated columns to a table.
• SUMMARIZE: Generates summary tables based on grouping
criteria.
• GENERATE: Returns a table with all possible combinations of two
tables.

PREM MANDAL
@PREMMANDAL
BUSINESS & DATA ANALYST

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