You're reading from Expert Data Modeling with Power BI, Second Edition Enrich and optimize your data models to get the best out of Power BI for reporting and business needs

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803246246

Length 698 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

DAX

Tools

Power BI

Concepts

Business Intelligence

Author (1):

Soheil Bakhshi

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section I: Data Modeling in Power BI

2. Introduction to Data Modeling in Power BI FREE CHAPTER

3. Data Analysis eXpressions and Data Modeling

4. Section II: Data Preparation in Query Editor

5. Data Preparation in Power Query Editor

6. Getting Data from Various Sources

7. Common Data Preparation Steps

8. Star Schema Preparation in Power Query Editor

9. Data Preparation Common Best Practices

10. Section III: Data Modeling

11. Data Modeling Components

12. Star Schema and Data Modeling Common Best Practices

13. Section IV: Advanced Data Modeling

14. Advanced Data Modeling Techniques

15. Row-Level and Object-Level Security

16. Dealing with More Advanced Data Warehousing Concepts in Power BI

17. Introduction to Dataflows

18. DirectQuery Connections to Power BI Datasets and Analysis Services in Composite Models

19. New Options, Features, and DAX Functions

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

21. Index

Dealing with inactive relationships

In real-world scenarios, the data models can get very busy, especially when we are creating a data model to support enterprise BI; there are many instances where we have an inactive relationship in our data model. In many cases, there are two reasons that a relationship is inactive, as follows:

The table with an inactive relationship is reachable via multiple filter paths.
There are multiple direct relationships between two tables.

In both preceding cases, the xVelocity engine does not allow us to activate an inactive relationship to avoid ambiguity across the model.

Reachability via multiple filter paths

A multiple filter path between two tables means that the two tables are related and can be reached via other related tables. Therefore, the filter propagates from one table to another via multiple hops (relationships). The following diagram shows a data model with an inactive relationship: