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Mastering Microsoft Power BI – Second Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Microsoft Power BI – Second Edition Expert techniques to create interactive insights for effective data analytics and business intelligence

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801811484
Length 712 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Greg Deckler Greg Deckler
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Brett Powell Brett Powell
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Planning Power BI Projects FREE CHAPTER 2. Preparing Data Sources 3. Connecting to Sources and Transforming Data with M 4. Designing Import, DirectQuery, and Composite Data Models 5. Developing DAX Measures and Security Roles 6. Planning Power BI Reports 7. Creating and Formatting Visualizations 8. Applying Advanced Analytics 9. Designing Dashboards 10. Managing Workspaces and Content 11. Managing the On-Premises Data Gateway 12. Deploying Paginated Reports 13. Creating Power BI Apps and Content Distribution 14. Administering Power BI for an Organization 15. Building Enterprise BI with Power BI Premium 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Metadata management

Metadata is simply data about data. While often overlooked, metadata management is an important aspect of properly managed content within Power BI.

Power BI datasets support metadata capabilities with the ability to include descriptions and other metadata about tables, columns, and measures found within the dataset. The information provided by metadata can become important as it’s common for hundreds of DAX measures to be built into datasets over time to support advanced analytics and address new requirements.

In addition, content published to the Power BI service also allows metadata to be set via the Settings pane as shown in Figure 10.26:

Figure 10.26: Metadata settings for a report in the Power BI service

Consider that as Power BI projects grow to support more teams and business processes, the dataset(s) supporting the reports and dashboards for these projects also grows. In addition, the number of reports, dashboards, and other...

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