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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook
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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

by Brett Powell
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
802 pages
37h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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Normalize large dimensions

Large-dimension tables (approximately one million+ rows), with their high-cardinality relationships to fact tables, are a major performance bottleneck with Power BI and SSAS Tabular import models.

  • Consider the following dimension table with attributes describing both resellers and promotions:
Reseller promotion dimension table
  • The consolidated table contains 10,520 rows and the relationship column on the Reseller Sales table is 19.4 MB in size.
Reseller Promo Key, approximately 20 MB in size
  1. Split (normalize) ...
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