You're reading from Expert Data Modeling with Power BI, Second Edition Enrich and optimize your data models to get the best out of Power BI for reporting and business needs

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803246246

Length 698 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

DAX

Tools

Power BI

Concepts

Business Intelligence

Author (1):

Soheil Bakhshi

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section I: Data Modeling in Power BI

2. Introduction to Data Modeling in Power BI FREE CHAPTER

3. Data Analysis eXpressions and Data Modeling

4. Section II: Data Preparation in Query Editor

5. Data Preparation in Power Query Editor

6. Getting Data from Various Sources

7. Common Data Preparation Steps

8. Star Schema Preparation in Power Query Editor

9. Data Preparation Common Best Practices

10. Section III: Data Modeling

11. Data Modeling Components

12. Star Schema and Data Modeling Common Best Practices

13. Section IV: Advanced Data Modeling

14. Advanced Data Modeling Techniques

15. Row-Level and Object-Level Security

16. Dealing with More Advanced Data Warehousing Concepts in Power BI

17. Introduction to Dataflows

18. DirectQuery Connections to Power BI Datasets and Analysis Services in Composite Models

19. New Options, Features, and DAX Functions

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

21. Index

Data Preparation in Power Query Editor

In the previous chapters, we discussed various layers in Power BI and went through some scenarios. By now, we know Power BI is not only a reporting tool. Power BI is indeed a sophisticated all-round Business Intelligence (BI) technology, with the flexibility to be used as a self-service BI tool that supports many BI aspects such as Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes, data modeling, data analysis, and data visualization. As a powerful BI tool, Power BI is improving every day, which is fantastic. Microsoft’s Power BI development team constantly brings new ideas to this technology to make it even more powerful. Data preparation and ETL activities are the BI areas in which Power BI is great for using the Power Query Editor in Power BI Desktop. Power Query Editor is the dedicated tool in Power BI to write Power Query expressions. Power Query is available in Excel and a few other Microsoft data platform products. This chapter looks...