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Power Query Cookbook

You're reading from   Power Query Cookbook Use effective and powerful queries in Power BI Desktop and Dataflows to prepare and transform your data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800569485
Length 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrea Janicijevic Andrea Janicijevic
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Power Query 2. Chapter 2: Connecting to Fetch Data FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Data Exploration in Power Query 4. Chapter 4: Reshaping Your Data 5. Chapter 5: Combining Queries for Efficiency 6. Chapter 6: Optimizing Power Query Performance 7. Chapter 7: Leveraging the M Language 8. Chapter 8: Adding Value to Your Data 9. Chapter 9: Performance Tuning with Power BI Dataflows 10. Chapter 10: Implementing Query Diagnostics 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing a Power BI gateway

Power BI users often need to work with data from on-premises sources, such as filesystems, local files available on a PC, and databases not running on the cloud. In order to make this data securely available once the report is published to the web, a Power BI gateway needs to be installed. Microsoft offers two different types of gateway for different scenarios, and their setup can be customized according to specific enterprise configuration requirements, such as proxy, service account, communication, and high availability settings. Users can choose one of the following two types:

  • Standard (or enterprise) mode: This mode can be used to connect data sources to Power Platform services, Logic Apps, and Analysis Services by multiple users. It has to be run by users with admin rights and is meant for enterprise scenarios.
  • Personal mode: This mode can be used by single users without the possibility of sharing the files. This version is available...
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