Power BI projects often begin by focusing on specific functional requirements, such as a set of dashboards and reports for a given business area and team. With relatively narrow requirements and small datasets, design and code enhancements to the data retrieval, model, and reporting layers are often unnecessary to deliver sufficient performance and reliability. Additionally, Power BI Premium capacity and tools to migrate a Power BI dataset to SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) provide viable alternatives to enhance the scalability of a dataset.
For larger Power BI projects, and particularly when the options of Power BI Premium and SSAS aren’t available, it becomes important to identify opportunities to improve report query performance and to more efficiently use system resources to store and refresh the dataset.
Moreover, the data import process supporting...
