Define New Measures in DAX Query View Quick Queries

This one is short and sweet!

Creating measures in DAX query view has become a little simpler recently.The ‘Quick queries’ option available from the context menu of tables, columns or other items in the Data pane, now includes ‘Define new measure’, viz.

This will create a new query table with the syntax started for you to create a query-scoped measure DAX formula ready for you to add your own DAX formula and then run when ready.

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