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

Configuring automatic page refresh

Reports are often only as valuable as the data they display. The frequency in which data is updated in the report can be critical to the value the report provides. When the most up-to-date data is required, it's best to consider using the automatic page refresh feature of Power BI.

When you enable automatic page refresh, you will be presented with an option of when to refresh the page. You can either select a fixed time interval or have Power BI detect changes in the underlying data source.

When using the fixed interval refresh type, all visuals in a report page will be updated at the same interval. You can refresh as often as every second or go as long as 5 minutes or more.

Another option besides fixed interval is to use change detection. Change detection will refresh visuals on a page when changes are detected in the data. This feature polls for changes to DirectQuery sources. When this is set up, you have defined how Power BI will...