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Learn Power BI

You're reading from   Learn Power BI A comprehensive, step-by-step guide for beginners to learn real-world business intelligence

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801811958
Length 458 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Greg Deckler Greg Deckler
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1:The Basics
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Business Intelligence and Power BI FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Planning Projects with Power BI 4. Section 2:The Desktop
5. Chapter 3: Up and Running with Power BI Desktop 6. Chapter 4: Connecting to and Transforming Data 7. Chapter 5: Creating Data Models and Calculations 8. Chapter 6: Unlocking Insights 9. Chapter 7: Creating the Final Report 10. Section 3:The Service
11. Chapter 8: Publishing and Sharing 12. Chapter 9: Using Reports in the Power BI Service 13. Chapter 10: Understanding Dashboards, Apps, Goals, and Security 14. Chapter 11: Refreshing Content 15. Section 4:The Future
16. Chapter 12: Deploying, Governing, and Adopting Power BI 17. Chapter 13: Putting Your Knowledge to Use 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 11: Refreshing Content

So far, we have spent quite a bit of time in the Power BI service working with reports, dashboards, apps, and security. Throughout this book, we have learned how to create data models and reports and then publish and share our work using the Power BI service. However, it is the nature of data to change over time. New data gets added or existing rows are deleted or changed. Hence, once our work is in the Power BI service, how do we keep our work up to date with new data without having to manually refresh the data on the desktop and republish it? Luckily, the Power BI service contains even more functionality that allows us to keep our data refreshed.

In this chapter, we will cover how to install and configure data gateways, which can keep our data up to date. Then, we will learn how to configure our datasets to use these gateways.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Installing and using data gateways
  • Refreshing datasets...
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