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Mastering Microsoft Power BI
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Mastering Microsoft Power BI

by Brett Powell
March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
638 pages
16h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Query design per dataset mode

Many common M queries can be written for both import and DirectQuery datasets, but with widely different implications for the source system resources utilized and the performance of the analytical queries from Power BI. It's essential that the mode of the dataset (import or DirectQuery) has been determined in advance of the development of the data access queries and that this decision is reflected in the M queries of the dataset.

The M queries supporting a Power BI dataset import mode should exclude, or possibly split, columns with many unique values, such as a Transaction Number column, as these columns consume relatively high levels of memory. A standard design technique for import mode models is to exclude ...

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