Greg Deckler - Learn Power BI: A comprehensive, step-by-step guide for beginners to learn real-world business intelligence, 2nd Edition

A comprehensive, step-by-step guide for beginners to learn real-world business intelligence

Greg Deckler

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Greg Deckler is a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and an active member of the Columbus Ohio IT community, having founded the Columbus Azure ML and Power BI User Group (CAMLPUG) and presented at many conferences and events throughout the country. An active blogger and community member interested in helping new users of Power BI, Greg actively participates in the Power BI community, having authored over 180 Power BI Quick Measures Gallery submissions and over 5,000 authored solutions to community questions. Greg is Vice President of cloud services at Fusion Alliance, a regional consulting firm, and assists customers in gaining competitive advantage from the cloud and cloud first technologies such as Power BI.

Thanks to my son Rocket, mom Sandy, the real-life Pam, Pam Hagely, and the entire Power BI community for their support, in particular, Pragati Jain, Pat Mahoney, Miguel Felix, Imke Feldman, Parvinder Chana, Paul Brown, Marco Russo, Ed Hansberry, Allison Kennedy, Tom Martens, Gilbert Quevauvilliers, Konstantinos Ioannou, Fowmy Abdulmuttalib, Matt Allington, Mike Carlo, Seth Bauer, and Phil Seamark. Special thanks to Doug Brown, Tom Wood, Tom Campbell, Rick Mariotti, David LeVine, Megan Koontz, Kishan Wanigasingha, Ishara Guruge, Sajith Wanigasingha, Paul Moore, Rob Watkins, Jon Tokash, John Dages, David Schroeder, and my entire Fusion Alliance family, including "work friend" Ashley Titus. This book is dedicated to my dad, Carl, who passed away in 2021.

Peter Ter Braake started working as a developer in 1996 after studying physics in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Databases and business intelligence piqued his interest the most, leading to him specializing in SQL Server and its business intelligence components. He has worked with Power BI from the tool's very beginnings. Peter started working as an independent contractor in 2008. This has enabled him to divide his time between teaching data-related classes, consulting with customers, and writing articles and books. Peter has also authored Data Modeling for Azure Data Services, Packt.