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Work with Text DAX Functions in Power BI
In this lab, you’ll practice using DAX text functions in Power BI. When you’re finished, you’ll have an understanding of how to manipulate text in DAX to search, extract, format, and combine text.
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Get Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Use the SEARCH and Related Functions
In this first challenge of a series, you’ll set up a Power BI data model for learning and learn about different ways to find text within other text. We’ll be using DAX queries, for which we need to have at least one table in the model.
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Use the LEFT, RIGHT, and MID Functions
Sometimes you may need to extract a substring from some text string, be it from the beginning, end, or middle. DAX has several functions that can help with it.
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Use the FORMAT Function
Non-text values sometimes may need to be included as part of a text string, and often there are several ways to format such values. In DAX, you can use the FORMAT function to do so.
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Use the CONCATENATE Function
It’s common to combine various text strings together to arrive at a result you want to show. For example, you may want to display a sentence somewhere that shows the best-selling product and its sales amount.
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The Last Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
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