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Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835082256
Length 346 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Thomas LeBlanc Thomas LeBlanc
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

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 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

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 – 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...

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