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Mastering Microsoft Power BI - Second Edition
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Mastering Microsoft Power BI - Second Edition

by Greg Deckler, Brett Powell
June 2022
Beginner to intermediate
712 pages
18h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Developing DAX Measures and Security Roles

This chapter details the implementation of DAX measures and security roles for the dataset developed in the previous two chapters. We first create a set of base measures for each business process that represents business definitions such as gross and net sales, cost of sales, and margin percentages. These base measures are then leveraged in the development of date intelligence calculations including year-to-date (YTD) and year-over-year (YOY) growth. Additionally, a set of custom measures is created, including exceptions, rankings, and KPI targets, to further extract insights from the dataset and simplify report visualizations.

This chapter also contains examples of dynamic security models in which ...

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