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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)

Pushing query processing back to source systems

During the scheduled refresh of datasets retrieving from on-premises sources, any query transformations not executed by the source system will require local resources of the M (Mashup) engine of the on-premises data gateway server. With larger datasets, and potentially with other scheduled refreshes occurring on the same gateway server at the same time, it becomes important to design M queries that take full advantage of source system resources via query folding. Although transformations against some sources such as files will always require local resources, in many scenarios M queries can be modified to help the engine generate an equivalent SQL statement and thus minimize local resource consumption.

In this recipe, a process and list of items is provided to identify queries not currently folding and the potential causes. Additionally...