As often happens - I meet a series of customers who are keen to learn about something, Power BI in this case, and I collate a growing list of useful links and things to get started with. So here's my current list for Power BI.
- Complete Power BI course
- Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
- Good video on how to use Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) for advanced and more complex formulas
- Quick Measures
- A new wizard for creating (and learning) DAX expressions
- Enable business insights for everyone with SQL Server 2016: Part 1 Using SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
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- Using SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is a great way to scale up Power BI, and to allow the creation of reports with Power BI desktop without pulling all the data down to the desktop computer. One simply connects Power BI desktop to SSAS to develop the reports.
- This is the first installment of a two-part series. How SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services (SSAS) can provide fast access to data to allow analysis at the speed of thought and part two, where we discuss the specific improvements made to SSAS for SQL Server 2016.
- Create and manage relationships in Power BI Desktop
- A key topic in the creation of powerful reports
- Microsoft Data Insights Summit
- Some very informative videos from this years summit – introduces many new features coming down the line.
- Whitepapers for Power BI
- Whitepapers allow you to explore Power BI topics at a deeper level. Here you can find a list of available whitepapers for Power BI.
- Microsoft Power BI Premium
- Describes Power BI Premium, both as it exists when launched and also how it will evolve.
- Planning a Power BI Enterprise Deployment
- This is a technical whitepaper outlining considerations for a well-performing and secure organizational Power BI deployment.
- Plan capacity for embedded analytics with Power BI Premium
- This paper provides guidance for the app developer/ISV to determine the most appropriate capacity for its business.
- Best design practices for reports and visuals
- Provides best practices for designing reports in Power BI.
- Advanced Analytics with Power BI
- Describes the advanced analytics capabilities of Power BI, including predictive analytics, custom visualizations, R integration, and data analysis expressions.
- Bidirectional filtering
- Explains bidirectional cross-filtering in Power BI Desktop (the whitepaper also covers SQL Server Analysis Services 2016, both have the same behavior).
- DirectQuery in SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services
- For SQL Server 2016, DirectQuery was redesigned for dramatically improved speed and performance, however, it is also now more complex to understand and implement.
- Governance
- Provides a framework for increasing the return on investment related to Power BI
- Security
- Provides a detailed explanation of security within Power BI.
- Securing the Tabular BI Semantic Model
- This paper introduces the security model for tabular BI semantic and Power BI. You will learn how to create roles, implement dynamic security, configure impersonation settings, manage roles, and choose a method for connecting to models that works in your network security context.
- Capacity planning guidance for Power BI Report Server
- This paper aims to offer guidance on capacity planning for Power BI Report Server by sharing results of numerous load test executions of various workloads against a report server.
- Api Security
- Developer APIs
- Publish to the world