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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803238562

Length 398 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

DAX

Tools

Power BI

Concepts

IT Certification

Authors (2):

Edward Corcoran

Orrin Edenfield

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

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

Connecting to data sources

You may want to include data from a variety of different sources, each of which has its own methods of connecting. We'll look at a couple of types of data sources in this section.

On-premises data gateway

Since Power BI lives as both a desktop tool and an online SaaS that provides the hosting of reports and dashboards, it is important to connect to non-online-hosted data sources as well. This is accomplished with the on-premises data gateway (referred to as the data gateway). The data gateway is a free download from the Microsoft Download Center that works with the online Power BI service to enable this connectivity on local resources from the cloud.

It is important to understand how the on-premises data gateway is different from other gateway software that may have been used in the past. The data gateway software runs on a local Windows computer, and it needs to have an internet connection to connect to an intermediary Azure Service Bus. This...