Course Code: advvbapowerbi
Duration: 42 hours
Prerequisites:
  • Delegates should be comfortable using Excel formula, sorting filtering, charts, pivot tables etcetera. With Access, they should be able to maintain tables, queries, forms and reports. No prior Power BI or BI experience required.Delegates should be comfortable using Excel formula, sorting filtering, charts, pivot tables etcetera. With Access, they should be able to maintain tables, queries, forms and reports. No prior Power BI or BI experience required.Delegates should be comfortable using Excel formula, sorting filtering, charts, pivot tables etcetera. With Access, they should be able to maintain tables, queries, forms and reports. No prior Power BI or BI experience required.
Overview:

The objective of the course is to enable participants to gain a mastery of the fundamentals and advanced usages of VBA for Excel & VBA and Power BI.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at data analysts who wish to use advanced VBA in Excel for automating tasks, learn to analyze & present data with Power BI.

Format of the Course

  • Interactive lecture and discussion.
  • Lots of exercises and practice.
  • Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.
Course Outline:

Introduction to VBA

  • Introducing the VBA environment
  • VB Editor
  • Using Project Explorer
  • Toolbox
  • Modules
  • Procedures and Functions
  • Comments

Principles and concepts of programming

  • Data types, variables and constants
  • Program flow control
  • If…Then… Else
  • Do…Loop, While and Until
  • For…Next statements 
  • Input / Output, Message boxes, Input boxes
  • Code behind forms, Form controls manipulation
  • Passing arguments, Returning Values

Debugging

  • Run Time, Design Time, and Break Mode
  • Breaks and Watches
  • Local Window
  • Immediate Window

Excel Object Model

  • The protection sheet from VBA
  • Object Workbook, Workbooks collection
  • Worksheet Object, Collection Worksheets
  • Validation sheets
  • Practical methods of the Range object
  • Copy, paste, paste special
  • Property CurrentRegion
  • Find, replace
  • Sorting ranges
  • Charts (Object Chart)

Events

  • Application-level events

Boards

  • Dynamic arrays
  • Table arrays Variant
  • Optimizing arrays and memory
  • Multi-dimensional arrays

Object-Oriented Programming

  • Classes and Objects
  • Creating classes
  • Creating and Destroying Objects
  • Create methods
  • Create property
  • Validation data using property
  • The default properties and methods
  • Error handling in the class module

Create and manage collections

  • Create a collection
  • Adding and removing items
  • References to the components (using a key and an index)

Advanced structures and functions VBA

  • Passing parameters by value and reference (ByRef and ByVal)
  • Procedures with a variable number of parameters
  • Optional Parameters and Defaults
  • Procedures of unknown number of parameters (ParamArray)
  • Enumeration, convenient parameter passing
  • Type the user (User-defined Type)
  • Service Null, Nothing, empty string "", Empty, 0
  • Type conversion (Conversion)

File Operations

  • Opening and closing text files
  • Reading and writing text and binary data
  • Processing of records in the CSV file
  • Efficient processing of text files

Use VBA functions in other applications

Extras

  • Create your own add-ons
  • Create a toolbar for addition
  • Installing your own add-ons and their protection

Using external libraries

Connecting to external databases (ODBC, OLEDB)

Access - Object-Oriented Programming

  • Access object model
  • Objects, Collections
  • Events
  • Methods and properties
  • Data Access Object Library

Access User Interface Design

  • Programming event procedures
  • Dynamic combo boxes
  • User inputs
  • Interface design considerations
  • Menus

Access SQL & Database Design

  • Filtering – various Where clause options
  • Deriving data - calculated fields
  • Inner table joins
  • Outer table joins
  • Sub-queries – filtering, virtual tables and columns,
  • Creating – adding rows directly or via queries
  • Updating and Deleting - directly and via sub-queries
  • Creating and Dropping tables
  • Creating relationships
  • Use of primary and foreign keys

Power BI Architecture

Data sources

  • On-premises and online data sources
  • Data transformations + M language
  • Direct connections to selected sources (SQL Server, OLAP)

Modeling

Relationship between tables (single and multidirectional data filtering)

  • DAX - Understanding the syntax and best practices
  • Introduction to DAX
    • Most commonly used functions and context of calculations
    • Working with the time dimension (including fiscal periods, comparing periods, YTD)
    • Functions for naturalizing a parent-child hierarchy
    • Filter functions
    • DAX templates

Visualizations

  • Interactive data analysis
  • Select the appropriate visualization
  • Filters, grouping, exclusions
  • Visualization on maps
  • Visualization enhancements (so-called custom visuals)

Data Access Management - Row-Level Security

Team work and mobile with Power BI

  • Dashboards and reports
  • Q & A mechanism
  • Workspaces Mobile applications