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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

Live connections to Power BI datasets

An optional but very important report planning and design decision is whether or not to develop the data model and report visuals within the same Power BI Desktop file or to separate the report from the dataset into separate files. As a general recommendation, if there’s any possibility that additional reports will be needed in the future based on the same dataset, the dataset and report should be separated into separate files and likely separate workspaces as well.

With Live connections to Power BI datasets, report authors can develop reports in Power BI Desktop files containing only the visualization layer (report pages of visuals) while leveraging a single, “golden” dataset. Increasingly organizations will isolate these source datasets, which are typically maintained by an IT or BI department, into Power BI workspaces that only the IT or BI organization has edit rights to. Report authors and users of these source datasets...