Order of Evaluation in CALCULATE Parameters

DAX is the new language used by PowerPivot and Analysis Services in Tabular mode and it resembles the syntax of Excel formula and it can be considered a functional language. You do not have iterative statements, but you can run iterative functions like, for example, SUMX and FILTER. The most important functions in DAX are CALCULATE and CALCULATETABLE, and these functions are also the most complex to master, because of the many operations they do. In order to fully understand them, you also have to well understand evaluation contexts (row context and filter context).