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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

Preparing the Date Dimension via the Query Editor

In some BI environments, it is not feasible to alter the source date table as per the previous recipe or even modify the SQL view used to load the date dimension table. In these situations, Power BI Desktop's Query Editor and M expressions can serve as an effective alternative to deliver the same columns necessary to drive robust date intelligence analysis.

In this recipe, an example date dimension M query is shared that builds common date attributes as well as dynamic logical columns. Additionally, a process for adding sequential date intelligence columns via M expressions is also included.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe:

How to Prepare the Date Dimension

To implement this recipe, perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new Power...