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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

Dataflows

Simply stated, dataflows are Power Query M queries created in the Power BI service. For non-My Workspace workspaces, the Power BI service provides an interface nearly identical to the Power Query Editor in Power BI Desktop for creating and editing Power Query queries.

Dataflows access source systems in the same manner as Power Query queries created in Power Query Editor within Power BI Desktop. However, the data ingested from these queries for import mode dataflows is stored in Dataverse-compliant folders within an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 instance. Dataflows can also be created for DirectQuery access to source systems.

There are several key advantages to the use of dataflows within enterprise BI. Chief among these advantages is reusability. Once created, a dataflow can be used as a data source within multiple different Power BI Desktop files during dataset design. Power BI dataflows are an option when using the Get data feature in both Power BI Desktop and...