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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Using the Optimize ribbon

In the previous section, we talked about the performance analyzer in Power BI Desktop and its ability to analyze the times for visuals and queries. Now, we are going to look at some options for helping the analysis while navigating visuals and pages in a report. This is also part of Power BI Desktop. Figure 3.15 shows the Optimize menu on the desktop.

Figure 3.15 – Optimize ribbon

Pause and Refresh visuals

The first section of the Optimize ribbon has two buttons. The first is a way to pause visual refreshes. This stops the refreshing of slicers and visuals on a page, while we select a value in a slicer or an item in a visual. Then, the second button can refresh the visuals after the changes have been completed. This enables the actions to not execute a refresh for every selection on a page. These options are available for all data storage modes.