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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

Configuring On-Premises Gateway Data Connections

The promise of leveraging the Power BI service and mobile application to provide access to a rich set of integrated dashboards and reports across all devices requires thoughtful configuration of both the data sources and the datasets which use those sources. For many organizations, the primary business intelligence data sources are hosted on-premises, and thus, unless Power BI reports are exclusively deployed to on-premises Power BI Report Server, the on-premises data gateway is needed to securely facilitate the transfer of queries and data between the Power BI service and on-premises systems. Additionally, the datasets which typically support many reports and dashboards must be configured to utilize an on-premises data gateway for either a scheduled refresh to import data into Power BI or to support DirectQuery and Live Connection queries generated from Power BI.

This recipe contains two examples of configuring data sources and...