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Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices

You're reading from   Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices A comprehensive guide to building consistently fast Power BI solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801076449
Length 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Architecture, Bottlenecks, and Performance Targets
2. Chapter 1: Setting Targets and Identifying Problem Areas FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Exploring Power BI Architecture and Configuration 4. Chapter 3: DirectQuery Optimization 5. Part 2: Performance Analysis, Improvement, and Management
6. Chapter 4: Analyzing Logs and Metrics 7. Chapter 5: Desktop Performance Analyzer 8. Chapter 6: Third-Party Utilities 9. Chapter 7: Governing with a Performance Framework 10. Part 3: Fetching, Transforming, and Visualizing Data
11. Chapter 8: Loading, Transforming, and Refreshing Data 12. Chapter 9: Report and Dashboard Design 13. Part 4: Data Models, Calculations, and Large Datasets
14. Chapter 10: Data Modeling and Row-Level Security 15. Chapter 11: Improving DAX 16. Chapter 12: High-Scale Patterns 17. Part 5: Optimizing Premium and Embedded Capacities
18. Chapter 13: Optimizing Premium and Embedded Capacities 19. Chapter 14: Embedding in Applications 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 2: Exploring Power BI Architecture and Configuration

In the previous chapter, we established guidelines for setting reasonable performance targets and gained an understanding of the major solution areas and Power BI components that should be considered for holistic performance management.

In this chapter, you will dig deeper into specific architectural choices, learning how and why these decisions affect your solution's performance. You will learn to consider broad requirements and make an informed decision to design a solution that meets the needs of different stakeholders. Ultimately, this chapter will help you choose the best components to host your data within Power BI. We will focus mainly on the efficient movement of data from the source system to end users by improving data throughput and minimizing latency.

We will begin by looking at data storage modes in Power BI and how the data reaches the Power BI dataset. We will cover how to best deploy Power BI gateways...

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