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Mastering Microsoft Power BI – Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Gregory Deckler, Brett Powell
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Book Image

Mastering Microsoft Power BI – Second Edition - Second Edition

4.5 (2)
By: Gregory Deckler, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

Mastering Microsoft Power BI, Second Edition, provides an advanced understanding of Power BI to get the most out of your data and maximize business intelligence. This updated edition walks through each essential phase and component of Power BI, and explores the latest, most impactful Power BI features. Using best practices and working code examples, you will connect to data sources, shape and enhance source data, and develop analytical data models. You will also learn how to apply custom visuals, implement new DAX commands and paginated SSRS-style reports, manage application workspaces and metadata, and understand how content can be staged and securely distributed via Power BI apps. Furthermore, you will explore top report and interactive dashboard design practices using features such as bookmarks and the Power KPI visual, alongside the latest capabilities of Power BI mobile applications and self-service BI techniques. Additionally, important management and administration topics are covered, including application lifecycle management via Power BI pipelines, the on-premises data gateway, and Power BI Premium capacity. By the end of this Power BI book, you will be confident in creating sustainable and impactful charts, tables, reports, and dashboards with any kind of data using Microsoft Power BI.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Index

Premium capacity estimations

The volume of factors involved in Premium capacity utilization makes it difficult to forecast the amount of Premium capacity (and thus cost) required. This complexity is particularly acute for large deployments with diverse use cases to support.

Additionally, for organizations relatively new to Power BI, the level and growth of user adoption, as well as the requirements for future projects, can be unclear. In the past, Microsoft provided an online tool to estimate which capacities would be needed for estimated workloads. However, that online tool no longer exists. Instead, use the guidance in this section to estimate Premium capacity requirements and then use the Monitoring Premium capacities section later in this chapter to determine whether additional resources are necessary.

Recall from the previous section that the important capacity limits from Table 15.2 vary per dataset storage mode and usage. Available RAM is highly important to import...