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Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Certification Guide

You're reading from   Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Certification Guide A comprehensive guide to becoming a confident and certified Power BI professional

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803238562
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Edward Corcoran Edward Corcoran
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Orrin Edenfield Orrin Edenfield
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Preparing the Data
2. Chapter 1: Overview of Power BI and the PL-300 Exam FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Connecting to Data Sources 4. Chapter 3: Profiling the Data 5. Chapter 4: Cleansing, Transforming, and Shaping Data 6. Part 2 – Modeling the Data
7. Chapter 5: Designing a Data Model 8. Chapter 6: Using Data Model Advanced Features 9. Chapter 7: Creating Measures Using DAX 10. Chapter 8: Optimizing Model Performance 11. Part 3 – Visualizing the Data
12. Chapter 9: Creating Reports 13. Chapter 10: Creating Dashboards 14. Chapter 11: Enhancing Reports 15. Part 4 – Analyzing the Data
16. Chapter 12: Exposing Insights from Data 17. Chapter 13: Performing Advanced Analysis 18. Part 5 – Deploying and Maintaining Deliverables
19. Chapter 14: Managing Workspaces 20. Chapter 15: Managing Datasets 21. Part 6 – Practice Exams
22. Chapter 16: Practice Exams 23. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Practice Question Answers

Summary

In this chapter, you learned a lot about Power BI datasets, including the fact that when you publish a report to Power BI, the service splits the report into two artifacts, the report and the dataset.

Once you publish your report and dataset to the Power BI service, the data in the dataset should be kept up to date. Though you could just import the data into Power BI Desktop and republish it, you learned a much better way, which is scheduling a refresh. If your data is on-premises, you need to use an on-premises data gateway for that data refresh. The on-premises data gateway allows you to synchronize data between your on-premises data sources and your Power BI datasets.

You also learned about a very important topic, how to enforce the row-level security you built into your data model in Powe BI Desktop. Using AAD, row-level security allows you to assign DAX filters to users or groups so they only see the data that they are supposed to see.

Sharing datasets allows...

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