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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

Installing and Configuring Additional Tools

Power BI professionals responsible for the development of semantic models (datasets) routinely utilize additional tools beyond Power BI Desktop to create and manage their models. For example, they use Tabular Editor to quickly implement changes to measures or add new objects, such as perspectives and calculation groups. Likewise, the ALM Toolkit is routinely used to deploy incremental and metadata-only changes to Power BI.

Another such tool is DAX Studio, a third-party tool used to query data models, edit and format code, browse the structure and metadata of data models, and analyze the performance and execution characteristics of DAX queries. For larger and more complex data models and expressions, as well as projects involving multiple models, DAX Studio becomes an essential supplement to the development and performance-tuning processes.

DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) is the "language of Power BI," as it is used...

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