Topic: Optimization
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UPDATE 2021-06-29: also read Choosing Azure Analysis Services or Power BI Premium for large datasets – SQLBI containing updates about Power BI Premium Gen2. I often get questions about use cases for Azure Analysis Services. So I wanted to do… Read more
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Follow the process of optimizing a measure created in a previous unplugged to display the distribution of the distance between transactions in a column chart. Many people who have seen the previous unplugged asked for this second episode to discover… Watch now
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Don’t miss the upcoming free SQLBI live event on Friday April 16, 2021! Join Adam Saxton, Alberto Ferrari, Patrick LeBlanc, and Marco Russo to discuss common mistakes in big data models. Proper data modeling will be a hot topic in… Read more
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After you apply all the best practices to improve compression in Power BI, you can play with advanced settings to increase it further, even though this can affect certain features. Explore how to manipulate Encoding Hint and Available In MDX… Watch now
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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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Applying security roles to a Power BI model or to an SSAS Tabular database might impact query performance. This article describes existing issues and possible workarounds. This is an advanced article, a good knowledge of storage engine and formula engine… 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