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Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference
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Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference

by Devin Knight, Brian Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Manuel Quintana
December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
794 pages
19h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Developing DAX Measures and Security Roles

This chapter will detail the implementation of DAX measures and security roles for the dataset developed in the previous two chapters. First, a set of base measures for each business process are created, representing business definitions such as gross and net sales, cost of sales, and margin percentages. The 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 customs measures are created, including exceptions, rankings, and KPI targets to further extract insights from the dataset and simplify report visualizations.

This chapter will also contain examples of dynamic security models ...

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