PowerPivot for End Users — Lesson 2: Relationships and Core DAX

Learning Objectives

• Create and validate one-to-many relationships
• Differentiate calculated columns from measures
• Use common aggregation, logical, lookup, and iterator functions

Detailed Topics

• Create and validate one-to-many relationships: Create and validate one-to-many relationships
• Differentiate calculated columns from measures: Differentiate calculated columns from measures
• Use common aggregation: Use common aggregation, logical, lookup, and iterator functions

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Build tested DAX measures for sales and operational analysis.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Relationships and Core DAX in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.