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Expert Data Modeling with Power BI - Second Edition

By : Soheil Bakhshi
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Book Image

Expert Data Modeling with Power BI - Second Edition

4 (1)
By: Soheil Bakhshi

Overview of this book

This book is a comprehensive guide to understanding the ins and outs of data modeling and how to create full-fledged data models using Power BI confidently. In this new, fully updated edition, you'll learn how to connect data from multiple sources, understand data, define and manage relationships between data, and shape data models to gain deep and detailed insights about your organization. As you advance through the chapters, the book will demonstrate how to prepare efficient data models in the Power Query Editor and use simpler DAX code with new data modeling features. You'll explore how to use the various data modeling and navigation techniques and perform custom calculations using the modeling features with the help of real-world examples. Finally, you'll learn how to use some new and advanced modeling features to enhance your data models to carry out a wide variety of complex tasks. Additionally, you'll learn valuable best practices and explore common data modeling complications and the solutions to supercharge the process of creating a data model in Power BI and build better-performing data models. By the end of this Power BI book, you'll have gained the skills you need to structure data coming from multiple sources in different ways to create optimized data models that support high-performing reports and data analytics.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section I: Data Modeling in Power BI
4
Section II: Data Preparation in Query Editor
10
Section III: Data Modeling
13
Section IV: Advanced Data Modeling
20
Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index

Row-Level and Object-Level Security

In the previous chapter, we learned advanced data modeling techniques, such as implementing various aggregation types, incremental refresh, parent-child hierarchies, role-playing dimensions, and calculation groups. This chapter discusses an essential aspect of data modeling, row-level security and object-level security (RLS and OLS respectively). We will cover the following topics:

  • What RLS and OLS mean in data modeling
  • Terminology
  • Implementation flows
  • Common RLS and OLS implementation approaches

We try to cover the preceding topics with real-world scenarios, but remember that each Power BI project may have specific requirements, so it is virtually impossible to cover all possibilities and scenarios in one chapter.

When it comes to Power BI security, many people immediately think it relates to Power BI administration, which is correct to some extent. RLS filters the data within an entire data model to show...