DAX Functions

in Power BI Desktop
❖ DAX functions can supercharge your analytics game.
Every DAX function applies a specific operation to the
values in an argument. In a DAX formula, you can
specify several arguments.
Aggregation Date & Time
Filter functions
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Financial Information Logical

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Math & Trig Parent & Child

Other functions
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Relationship Statistical
Text functions
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Time Table
New DAX
intelligence manipulation
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Aggregation
Functions
SUM

COUNT

AVERAGE

MIN

MAX

PRODUCT
➢ These functions perform
calculations on columns or SUMX
expressions to summarize data.
COUNTA

COUNTROWS

DISTINCTCOUNT

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Date & Time
Functions
TODAY

YEAR

QUARTER

DATE

DATEDIFF

EOMONTH
➢ These functions help you create
calculations based on dates and UTCNOW
time.
WEEKDAY

DATEDIFF

CALENDARAUTO

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Filter
Functions
FILTER

ALL

ALLSELECTED

ALLEXCEPT

SELECTEDVALUE

KEEPFILTERS
➢ These functions allow you to filter
and manipulate tables or columns CALCULATE
based on specific conditions. INDEX

LOOKUPVALUE

RANK

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Financial
Functions
DURATION

MDURATION

RATE

PRICE

YIELD

➢ Financial functions in DAX are DISC

used in formulas that perform
EFFECT
financial calculations, such as
net present value and rate of INTRATE
return. ISPMT

NOMINAL

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Information
Functions
ISBLANK

CONTAINS

ISFILTERED

ISONORAFTER

HASONEVALUE
➢ These functions provide USERPRINCIPALNAME
information about data and
calculations. USERNAME

ISERROR

ISTEXT

HASONEFILTER

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Logical
Functions
IF

SWITCH

OR

AND

NOT

➢ Logical functions act upon an IFERROR

expression to return
TRUE
information about the values
or sets in the expression. FALSE

COALESCE

IF.EAGER

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Math & Trig
Functions
ABS

ROUND

CEILING

DIVIDE

CURRENCY

➢ Math and Trig DAX functions FLOOR

are used for performing a wide
SQRT
range of mathematical and
trigonometric calculations. POWER

CONVERT

DEGREES

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Other
Functions

BLANK

ERROR
➢ These functions perform
unique actions that cannot be TOCSV
defined by any of the
categories.
TOJSON

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Parent & Child
Functions

PATH

PATHCONTAINS
➢ Parent and Child functions
PATHITEM
are used in DAX to navigate
and work with hierarchical PATHITEMREVERSE
data structures like parent-
child hierarchies. PATHLENGTH

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Relationship
Functions

CROSSFILTER

RELATED
➢ Functions in this category are
for managing and utilizing RELATEDTABLE
relationships between tables.

USERELATIONSHIP

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Statistical
Functions
RANKX

STDEV.P

VAR.S

NORM.DIST

COMBIN
➢ These functions help you to
MEDIAN
calculate values related to
statistical distributions and GEOMEAN
probability, such as standard CONFIDENCE.T
deviation and number of
EXPON.DIST
permutations.
LINEST

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Table Manipulation
Functions
SUMMARIZE

ADDCOLUMNS

CROSSJOIN

VALUES

TOPN
➢ These functions create, UNION
manipulate, or summarize
tables. TREATAS

EXCEPT

GROUPBY

INTERSECT

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Text
Functions
FORMAT

CONCATENATEX

LEFT

SEARCH

FIND
➢ These functions work with text EXACT
data, such as manipulating
strings. REPLACE

SUBSTITUTE

TRIM

UNICHAR

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Time Intelligence
Functions
TOTALYTD

DATEADD

SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR

PARALLELPERIOD

PREVIOUSYEAR
➢ These functions are used for
DATEMTD
analyzing and comparing data
over time periods. DATESINPERIOD

LASTDATE

STARTOFMONTH

ENDOFYEAR
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New DAX
Functions

NETWORKDAYS

MATCHBY

RANK
➢ DAX is continuously being
improved with new functions ROWNUMBER
and functionality to support
LINEST
new features.
INDEX

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