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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Greg Deckler, Brett Powell
Book Image

Microsoft Power BI Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Greg Deckler, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

The complete everyday reference guide to Power BI, written by an internationally recognized Power BI expert duo, is back with a new and updated edition. Packed with revised practical recipes, Microsoft Power BI Cookbook, Second Edition, helps you navigate Power BI tools and advanced features. It also demonstrates the use of end-to-end solutions that integrate those features to get the most out of Power BI. With the help of the recipes in this book, you’ll gain advanced design and development insight, practical tips, and guidance on enhancing existing Power BI projects. The updated recipes will equip you with everything you need to know to implement evergreen frameworks that will stay relevant as Power BI updates. You’ll familiarize yourself with Power BI development tools and services by going deep into the data connectivity, transformation, modeling, visualization, and analytical capabilities of Power BI. By the end of this book, you’ll make the most of Power BI’s functional programming languages of DAX and M and deliver powerful solutions to common business intelligence challenges.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Creating an On-Premises Data Gateway

The Microsoft on-premises data gateway (or simply gateway) is a Windows service that runs in on-premises environments or in infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) data sources running in the cloud, such as virtual machines running SQL Server databases. The sole purpose of the gateway is to support secure (encrypted) and efficient data transfer between on-premises and IaaS data sources and Microsoft Azure services such as Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Azure Logic Apps, via an outbound connection to Azure Service Bus. It is important to note that if all data sources used in Power BI reports are in the cloud (and so not on-premises) and accessible by the Power BI service, then the Microsoft on-premises data gateway is not required, as the Power BI service will use native cloud gateways to access native cloud data sources; this could be something such as Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instances.

Once installed, a gateway can be...