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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

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SQL Server Query Store is a monitoring feature available to all editions of SQL Server 2016 and later—it significantly simplifies and expedites query tuning and troubleshooting. The Query Store database provides aggregated metrics regarding query executions, query plans, and wait statistics to enable visibility to performance trends and usage patterns.

"Query Store is a fantastic flight data recorder for your execution plans. It will help you troubleshoot parameter sniffing issues, connection settings issues, plan regressions, bad stats, and much more."

—Brent Ozar, Author and Microsoft-Certified Master in SQL Server

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