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Published inSep 2021
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ISBN-139781801813044
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Gregory Deckler
Gregory Deckler
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Gregory Deckler

Greg Deckler is a 7-time Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and an active blogger and Power BI community member, having written over 6,000 solutions to community questions. Greg has authored many books on Power BI, including Learn Power BI 1st and 2nd Editions, DAX Cookbook, Power BI Cookbook 2nd Edition and Mastering Power BI 2nd Edition. Greg has also created several external tools for Power BI and regularly posts video content to his YouTube channels, Microsoft Hates Greg and DAX For Humans.
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Brett Powell
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Brett Powell

Brett Powell is the owner of and business intelligence consultant at Frontline Analytics LLC, a data and analytics research and consulting firm and Microsoft Power BI partner. He has worked with Power BI technologies since they were first introduced as the PowerPivot add-in for Excel 2010 and has been a Power BI architect and lead BI consultant for organizations across the retail, manufacturing, and financial services industries. Additionally, Brett has led Boston's Power BI User Group, delivered presentations at technology events such as Power BI World Tour, and maintains the popular Insight Quest Microsoft BI blog.
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Analyzing SSAS tabular databases and gateways

A Microsoft on-premises data gateway enables specific cloud services, including Power BI, Azure Analysis Services, Power Apps, and Power Automate, to securely connect to on-premises data sources. In the context of Power BI, these connections support both the scheduled refresh of imported datasets stored in Power BI, as well as DirectQuery and Live Connection datasets, in which only report queries and their results are exchanged between Power BI and the on-premises source. As the availability and performance of the gateway are critical for any Power BI and other supported cloud service deployment requiring on-premises data, regular monitoring of both the gateway service and its host server(s) is recommended.

In this recipe, performance monitor counters specific to the on-premises data gateway and SQL Server Analysis Services are integrated into a single Power BI dataset. This source data is dynamically retrieved and enhanced via M queries...

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Published in: Sep 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801813044

Authors (2)

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Gregory Deckler

Greg Deckler is a 7-time Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and an active blogger and Power BI community member, having written over 6,000 solutions to community questions. Greg has authored many books on Power BI, including Learn Power BI 1st and 2nd Editions, DAX Cookbook, Power BI Cookbook 2nd Edition and Mastering Power BI 2nd Edition. Greg has also created several external tools for Power BI and regularly posts video content to his YouTube channels, Microsoft Hates Greg and DAX For Humans.
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Brett Powell

Brett Powell is the owner of and business intelligence consultant at Frontline Analytics LLC, a data and analytics research and consulting firm and Microsoft Power BI partner. He has worked with Power BI technologies since they were first introduced as the PowerPivot add-in for Excel 2010 and has been a Power BI architect and lead BI consultant for organizations across the retail, manufacturing, and financial services industries. Additionally, Brett has led Boston's Power BI User Group, delivered presentations at technology events such as Power BI World Tour, and maintains the popular Insight Quest Microsoft BI blog.
Read more about Brett Powell