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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

Visualizing log file data

Log files containing SQL Server Agent job history and the Power BI usage activities stored in the Office 365 audit log and Power BI activity log can also be integrated into the Power BI monitoring solution described earlier in this chapter. For example, SQL Agent job data can reveal important trends, such as the performance of a nightly job used to load a data warehouse and the duration and reliability of individual steps within these jobs. Likewise, detailed reporting and, optionally, alerts based on user activities in the Power BI service, such as deleting a dashboard, enable BI and IT administrators to better manage and govern Power BI deployments.

In this recipe, transformations are applied to the structure of the Power BI audit log to convert the audit data stored in JSON format and adjust for local time reporting. Additionally, an advanced T-SQL query is used to access the job history data in SQL Server Agent system tables, and to prepare this data...