Power BI Data Modeling
In this course you will learn to
- Get familiar with data modeling terminology
- Understand relationships
- Filter data
- Work with dates
- Examine aggregates and historical reporting
- Build a union calculated table
- Get familiar with row-level security
- Optimize a model
Included in this course
- Hands-on exercises
- Course manual
Suggested attendees
Business analysts with technical skills or IT personnel. Basic experience with Power BI and data manipulation is beneficial.
Course Outline
- Learn terminology
- Data models
- Schemas
- Tables
- Relational data
- Transactional data vs. dimensional data
- Facts and dimensions
- Snowflakes
- Denormalization
- Understand relationships
- Joins
- Cardinality
- Filter data
- Understand filtering and cross-filtering
- Work with multiple fact tables
- Handle many-to-many relationships
- Work with dates
- Understand dates
- Continuous vs. non-continuous dates
- Parts of a date
- Create date tables
- DAX functions
- Manual creation
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- Work with dimensions
- Discuss slowly changing dimensions
- Handle a role-playing dimension
- Aggregate data
- Look at granularity issues
- Review snapshots
- Store historical data
- Discuss materialized views
- Work with aggregate tables
- Calculated tables
- Create calculated tables
- Add a union
- Data security
- Handle data security
- Row-level security
- Security filters
- Review how to optimize a data model
- Payments by purchase order and invoice incur a $50 service fee.
- Paying party will receive a payment confirmation email upon receipt of payment.
- Each registered student will receive an email with the course details.
- Students will receive electronic copies of the course materials and may print one hard copy for their personal use. The course materials are copyrighted and any other reproduction or distribution of these materials is strictly prohibited.
This class requires a local copy of Power BI Desktop. Download it for free
Instructor-led online
We recommend using two monitors to simultaneously view the training presentation and hands-on class work.
You’ll receive a Zoom link to join the class. We recommend using a headset instead of the computer’s microphone and speakers. You may also listen to the audio by phone.
Instructor-led online
- 100% refund for cancellations made more than 10 days before the first class
- 50% refund for cancellations made 5-9 days before the first class
- No refund for cancellations made less than 5 days before the first class
Self-paced
- Subscriptions start when payment is received
- Full refund if cancelling within 24 hours of registration
- $15 fee for cancellations after 24 hours of registration
- No refund for cancellations after 15 days of registration
- Shared subscriptions will be immediately deactivated and no refund issued
