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Mastering Microsoft Power BI – Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Gregory Deckler, Brett Powell
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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

Life cycle management with Premium

In addition to the enhanced life cycle management capabilities of Power BI Premium described in the Power BI deployment pipelines section of Chapter 10, Managing Workspaces and Content, the write capabilities of the XMLA endpoint enable additional capabilities with regard to life cycle management of datasets assigned to Premium capacities.

Specifically, given the write capabilities of the XMLA endpoint, the recommended tool for deploying incremental changes to datasets becomes the ALM Toolkit from MAQ Software, which is based on the BISM Normalizer by Christian Wade.

ALM Toolkit deployment

ALM Toolkit is a free, open source tool that enables the object-level comparison of source and target datasets and the incremental deployment of changes such as new or revised DAX measures. ALM Toolkit can be downloaded from http://alm-toolkit.com.

Once downloaded, simply run the .msi installer file to install. After installation, ALM Toolkit is...