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Published inSep 2021
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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 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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Designing Column Level Security

While not as common as row-level security (RLS), there are times when you may wish to hide particular columns in a data model from one group of report viewers, but not others. Power BI Desktop does not natively support column security. However, a carefully designed data model can achieve column level security using Power BI's native RLS functionality.

It should be noted that Microsoft has recently released object-level security (OLS) for securing tables and columns in Power BI Premium and Pro. This method of securing objects currently requires third-party tools, such as Tabular Editor. In addition, this method has the advantage of securing even the metadata about the objects such that report viewers without access will not even know that the tables and columns exist in the model. However, there are disadvantages to OLS as well; namely, by completely hiding the tables and columns in the model, it becomes difficult to create measures and report...

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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