This is the code repository for Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices, published by Packt.

A comprehensive guide to building consistently fast Power BI solutions

This book comprehensively covers every layer of Power BI, from the report canvas to data modeling, transformations, storage, and architecture.

This book covers the following exciting features:

• Understand how to set realistic performance targets and address performance proactively
• Understand how architectural options and configuration affect performance
• Build efficient Power BI reports and data transformations
• Explore best practices for data modeling, DAX, and large datasets
• Understand the inner workings of Power BI Premium
• Explore options for extreme scale with Azure services
• Understand how to use tools that help identify and fix performance issues

If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!

All of the code is organized into folders.

The code will look like the following:

System.Net.WebClient w = new System.Net.WebClient();
string path = System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.
Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData);
string url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/
Analysis-Services/master/BestPracticeRules/BPARules.json";
string downloadLoc = path+@"\TabularEditor\BPARules.json";
w.DownloadFile(url, downloadLoc);

Following is what you need for this book: Data analysts, BI developers, and data professionals who have learnt the basics of Power BI and now want to understand how to build advanced analytics solutions will find this business intelligence book useful. Familiarity with the major components of Power BI and a beginner-level understanding of their purpose and use cases are required.

With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-14).

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.

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Bhavik Merchant has nearly 18 years of in-depth BI experience. He is a director of product analytics at Salesforce. Prior to that, he was at Microsoft, first as a cloud solution architect, and then as a product manager in the Power BI engineering team. At Power BI, he led the customer-facing insights program, being responsible for the strategy and technical framework to deliver system-wide usage and performance insights to customers. Before Microsoft, Bhavik spent years managing high-caliber consulting teams, delivering enterprise-scale BI projects. He has delivered much technical and theoretical BI training over the years, including expert Power BI performance training that he developed for top Microsoft partners globally.

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Simply click on the link to claim your free PDF.

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