You're reading from Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices Learn practical techniques for building high-speed Power BI solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835082256

Length 346 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

DAX

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Business Intelligence

Authors (2):

Thomas LeBlanc

Bhavik Merchant

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Architecture, Bottlenecks, and Performance Targets FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Setting Targets and Identifying Problem Areas

3. Chapter 2: Exploring Power BI Architecture and Configuration

4. Chapter 3: Learning the Tools for Performance Tuning

5. Part 2: Performance Analysis, Improvement, and Management

6. Chapter 4: Analyzing Logs and Metrics

7. Chapter 5: Optimization for Storage Modes

8. Chapter 6: Third-Party Utilities

9. Chapter 7: Performance Governance 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 Semantic Models

14. Chapter 10: Dimensional Modeling and Row Level Security

15. Chapter 11: Improving DAX

16. Chapter 12: High Scale Patterns

17. Part 5: Optimizing Capacities in Power BI Enterprises

18. Chapter 13: Working with Capacities

19. Chapter 14: Performance Needs for Fabric Artifacts

20. Chapter 15: Embedding in Web Apps

21. Index

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Adapting external tools

The external tools mentioned here have a free version available. These are used throughout the industry to assist with performance tuning and development. Detailed examples will be shown in Chapter 6, Third-Party Utilities.

DAX Studio

DAX Studio is written by the folks at https://www.sqlbi.com/. They have combined useful tools into one application. The main query window allows connections to desktop files, deployed Power BI semantic models, as well as Analysis Services models. The query window enables users to type their own DAX queries for validation against a model. The additional options for queries can display the timings from the formula and storage engines. A DAX query plan can be extracted for advanced analysis.

Figure 3.19 – DAX Studio

Figure 3.19 shows the query window with a queried copy from the performance analyzer for analysis. The tool also has a View Metrics feature in the Advanced ribbon for an analysis...