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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

You're reading from   Microsoft Power BI Cookbook Gain expertise in Power BI with over 90 hands-on recipes, tips, and use cases

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813044
Length 656 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 (16) Chapters Close

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

Analyzing Extended Events

Extended Events is a highly configurable and lightweight performance monitoring system available to both the SQL Server relational database engine and Analysis Services. A vast library of events is available to specific sessions, which can be saved, scheduled, and then analyzed to support performance tuning, troubleshooting, and general monitoring. However, similar to other monitoring tools (such as Windows Performance Monitor and SQL Server Query Store), the Extended Events graphical interface lacks the rich analytical capabilities and flexibility of reporting tools such as Power BI.

In this recipe, the output of an Extended Events session containing query execution statistics is retrieved in a dedicated Power BI event analysis report file. The 1.4 million rows of event data from this file are enhanced during the import process, and report visualizations are developed to call out the most meaningful trends and measures, as well as support further self...

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