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Architecting Power BI Solutions in Microsoft Fabric
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Architecting Power BI Solutions in Microsoft Fabric

by Nagaraj Venkatesan
April 2025
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
11h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Deciding on an Intermediate Data Store

After deciding on a storage mode, something we did in the previous chapter, one of the challenges data modelers face is deciding on intermediate storage. But why do we need intermediate storage? Let’s say you have a set of 25 tables that are being used across multiple reports. Consider the following requirements:

  • Each report doesn’t need all 25 tables and perhaps requires a subset of them (say 10 to 15 tables)
  • Each report would like to perform additional data processing (add a new calculated column, filter a few rows, and so on) on the 25 common tables
  • Each report might need a few other smaller tables from other data sources that may not belong to the 25 common tables

To address these requirements, ...

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