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 a dataset scheduled refresh

It is very important to have not only accurate but also timely data for your reports. Looking at a sales forecast report for last year, or even last week's inventory report, may lead you to making the wrong business decisions. To keep your imported Power BI report data up to date, you will have to refresh the data by pulling data from the data source. You can manually refresh the data of a dataset, but this can be inconvenient, to say the least. An easier way is to have the Power BI service schedule the refresh for you.

To schedule a refresh, go to the workspace you published the report to and select the Datasets + dataflows option from the menu, then hover your mouse over the dataset name. When you do that, the refresh now and schedule refresh icons will appear; select the schedule refresh icon.

This will open the dataset settings page, where you can then set up scheduled refreshes.

Figure 15.2 – Selecting...