Power BI Helper

Power BI Helper has a range of features that help you explore, document, and compare local Power BI Desktop files. It also lets you explore and export metadata from the Power BI service, such as lists of workspaces and datasets and their properties. Power BI Helper can be downloaded from the following link: https://powerbihelper.org.

In previous chapters, we discussed how important it is to keep Power BI datasets smaller by removing unused tables and columns. Power BI Helper includes features to help you do this, so it could be a useful tool to incorporate into standard optimization processes before production releases.

Identifying large columns in the dataset

In general, having a smaller model speeds up report loads and data refresh, which is why it is good to be able to identify the largest items easily. For now, we simply want to introduce this capability so you are aware of this technique. We will learn about dataset size reduction in detail in Chapter...