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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

Analyzing Extended Events

Extended Events is a highly configurable and lightweight performance monitoring system available to both the SQL Server relational database engine and Analysis Services. A vast library of events is available to specific sessions, which can be saved, scheduled, and then analyzed to support performance tuning, troubleshooting, and general monitoring. However, similar to other monitoring tools (such as Windows Performance Monitor and SQL Server Query Store), the Extended Events graphical interface lacks the rich analytical capabilities and flexibility of reporting tools such as Power BI.

In this recipe, the output of an Extended Events session containing query execution statistics is retrieved in a dedicated Power BI event analysis report file. The 1.4 million rows of event data from this file are enhanced during the import process, and report visualizations are developed to call out the most meaningful trends and measures, as well as support further self...