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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

Integrating SSRS and Excel

Power BI Desktop is the primary report authoring tool for content published to the Power BI service as well as for Power BI report visuals embedded in custom applications. However, for many organizations a significant portion of existing or legacy reporting workloads built with SSRS and Excel must be maintained. In many cases, existing SSRS and Excel reports can be converted to modern Power BI reports and dashboards but Power BI is not intended as a full replacement for all the features and use cases for these other tools. In addition to supporting paginated reports (aka SSRS reports) via Power BI Premium and data refresh of Excel reports built against Power BI datasets, the Power BI service offers further methods of integrating content from Excel and SSRS into Power BI. Additionally, given the common database engine and DAX language of Power BI, Power Pivot for Excel, and Analysis Services, BI teams can take full control of reports rendered in SSRS and...