Power BI: M vs. DAX and Measures vs. Calculated Columns
The basics I wish I knew when I first started learning Power BI.
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6 min readAug 7, 2020
When I embarked on my Power BI journey I was almost immediately slapped with an onslaught of foreign and perplexing terms that all seemed to do similar, but somehow different, things.
There is a language called M but there is also a language called DAX? What is the difference between a calculated column and a measure? When should I be using Power Query?
