Hello Hoping,

you are right, whenever you call a measure, like

[MyMeasure],

what is executed is

CALCULATE ( 
      < MyMeasure DAX code >
)

so a hidden CALCULATE is there all the time and this is why the convention is to drop the table name from call to measures,

[MyMeasure] and not Table[MyMeasure]

so that measure calls can be immediately distinguished from columns call where CALCULATE is not involved and no context transition happens, Table[Column]

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