Category: Microsoft Power BI

SQL Server Business Intelligence (BI) – Traditional Tools and Technologies

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If Business Intelligence (BI) is in your focus, you need two things to be a success. They are the knowledge and tools. If you target the SQL Server BI, you can benefit from the tools and technologies offered by Microsoft for this case particularly.

The current article highlights these tools and technologies. We are going to explore how they work to design Microsoft-based BI solutions and clarify why it is so crucial to use the using proven tools for serving the BI needs of an organization.

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Using REST API as a Data Source in Power BI

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Microsoft Power BI is a data visualization and analytics tool which lets you create powerful visualizations with a graphical user interface. It can use a variety of data sources such as CSV, TSV, and other flat files, SQL databases, and even online sources through Rest APIs.

This article explains the usage of Rest API as a data source to import JSON data in Power BI from a remote location. Also, we’ll learn how to transform the imported JSON data into a tabular format. Finally, we’ll plot visualizations using the imported data.

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Power BI REST API No Code Options

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Microsoft’s Power BI REST API no-code option is extremely helpful as it allows calling Power BI REST API without writing a single line of code. Of course, you can call it programmatically using any programming language. Still, testing if Power BI Rest APIs are accepting requests and returning the right data, it is convenient to use the no-code options first. This article will explain how to do that.

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