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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

Connecting to Azure Analysis Services

Power BI Premium is now a superset of Analysis Services and powerful new features such as composite models and aggregations are exclusive to Power BI Premium. Nonetheless, it wasn't long ago in which Azure Analysis Services (AAS) was Microsoft's flagship semantic modeling tool and thus many organizations' production BI workloads currently leverage AAS models as the source for Power BI and other report types.

Given the additional features and product roadmap of Power BI Premium, deep compatibility between AAS and Power Premium, as well as a straight forward migration path, many AAS (and SSAS) models will eventually be re-deployed to Power BI Premium. Nonetheless, Azure Analysis Services will remain a fully supported and common cloud service that BI developers should be familiar with.

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