Topic: Optimization
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This article describes the improved server timings features in DAX Studio 2.17 to analyze the parallelism of storage engine operations. Read more
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This article provides you with the technical knowledge to choose between using a Date or an Integer to create the relationship between your fact table and the Date dimension. Read more
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This article describes how blank values considered in a DAX conditional expression can affect its query plan and how to apply possible optimizations to improve performance in these cases. Read more
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This article describes how to use DAX Studio to capture DAX queries generated by Power BI. Analyzing DAX queries can be helpful to better understand performance issues, and to improve the writing of DAX queries. Read more
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This article describes a very common optimization pattern that relies on variables to optimize conditional expressions in DAX. Read more
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Estimating the cardinality of iterators is an important skill when optimizing DAX code. This article explains how to use this technique, evaluating different ways of computing the number of working days between two dates. Read more
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This article describes the memory configuration in SQL Server Analysis Services and Azure Analysis Services. Modifying these settings may impact performance and memory errors. Read more
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This article describes how DAX Studio can analyze the SQL queries sent to a relational database by Power BI or Analysis Services Tabular in DirectQuery mode. Read more
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This article describes how to import into DAX Studio the performance metrics that can be exported by the Power BI Performance Analyzer, simplifying the analysis of slower queries in a report. Read more
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DAX calculations can leverage relationships present in the data model, but you can obtain the same result without physical relationships, applying equivalent filters using specific DAX patterns. This article show a more efficient technique to apply virtual relationships in DAX… Read more