Simple Filter in DAX Measures
Today’s post is about different ways to set a simple filter in DAX. Although there are plenty of writings covering these patterns, I still see DAX authors get confused on a regular basis. In this post, I am going to clarify the differences among the patterns. The examples are based on a pbix file created from the Adventure Works database that you can download from here. It helps if you have learned about filter context before but you should still follow the general idea outlined here without those knowledge.
Setting a basic filter is one of the first things people do when writing a DAX measure. Let’s say you want to write a measure to calculate the total sales on red products. The two common DAX patterns I saw people use are:
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