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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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Managing Fabric Capacities

Capacities provide the resources to run all the artifacts in a workspace. Understanding how capacities manage workloads is extremely important for keeping the Power BI/Fabric environment performant. The subject of managing capacities is further important as it is not just Power BI reports or semantic models that leverage the capacity but other data engineering, data science, and data warehousing artifacts too. So, in this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Understanding Fabric capacities
  • Demystifying the concepts of bursting, smoothing, and throttling
  • Monitoring Fabric capacities
  • Managing Fabric capacities
  • Devising capacity management strategies

In this chapter, you will learn about the concept ...

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