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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

By : Author Test, Brett Powell
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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

By: Author Test, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence and analytics platform consisting of applications and services designed to provide coherent, visual and interactive insights of data. This book will provide thorough, technical examples of using all primary Power BI tools and features as well as demonstrate high impact end-to-end solutions that leverage and integrate these technologies and services. Get familiar with Power BI development tools and services, go deep into the data connectivity and transformation, modeling, visualization and analytical capabilities of Power BI, and see Power BI’s functional programming languages of DAX and M come alive to deliver powerful solutions to address common, challenging scenarios in business intelligence. This book will excite and empower you to get more out of Power BI via detailed recipes, advanced design and development tips, and guidance on enhancing existing Power BI projects.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Developing Solutions for System Monitoring and Administration

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Creating a centralized IT monitoring solution with Power BI
  • Constructing a monitoring, visualization, and analysis layer
  • Importing and visualizing dynamic management view (DMV) data of SSAS and Power BI data models
  • Increasing the SQL Server DBA's productivity with Power BI
  • Providing documentation of Power BI and SSAS data models to BI and business teams
  • Analyzing performance monitor counters of the Microsoft on-premises data gateway and SSAS tabular databases
  • Analyzing Extended Events trace data with Power BI
  • Visualizing log file data from SQL Server agent jobs and Office 365 audit searches