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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

You're reading from   Microsoft Power BI Cookbook Convert raw data into business insights with updated techniques, use cases, and best practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835464274
Length 598 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Greg Deckler Greg Deckler
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Brett Powell Brett Powell
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Licensing Power BI Tools FREE CHAPTER 2. Accessing, Retrieving, and Transforming Data 3. Building a Power BI Semantic Model 4. Authoring Power BI Reports 5. Working in the Power BI Service 6. Getting Serious About Date Intelligence 7. Parameterizing Power BI Solutions 8. Implementing Dynamic User-Based Visibility in Power BI 9. Applying Advanced Analytics and Custom Visuals 10. Enhancing and Optimizing Existing Power BI Solutions 11. Deploying and Distributing Power BI Content 12. Integrating Power BI with Other Applications 13. Working with Premium and Microsoft Fabric 14. Other Books You May Enjoy
15. Index

Strengthening Data Import and Integration Processes

Many Power BI semantic models must be created without the benefit of a data warehouse or even a relational database source system. These semantic models, which often transform and merge less structured and governed data sources such as text and Excel files, generally require more complex M queries to prepare the data for analysis. The combination of greater M query complexity, periodic structural changes, and data quality issues in these sources can lead to refresh failures and challenges in supporting the semantic model. Additionally, as M queries are sometimes initially created exclusively via the Query Editor interface, the actual M code generated may contain unexpected logic that can lead to incorrect results and unnecessary dependencies on source data.

This recipe includes practical examples of increasing the reliability and manageability of data import processes, including data source consolidation, error handling and comments...

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