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Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference
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Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference

by Devin Knight, Brian Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Manuel Quintana
December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
794 pages
19h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Columnstore and HTAP

Business intelligence queries generated from tools such as Power BI are more suited for columnar data stores and most DirectQuery source systems offer a columnar feature to deliver improved query performance. For Microsoft SQL Server, the columnstore index is recommended for large fact tables and this index eliminates the need to maintain traditional B-tree indexes or to apply row or page compression. Additionally, a combination of non-clustered columnstore indexes and in-memory table technologies can be used to support hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) workloads. For example, the Power BI queries against the DirectQuery dataset would utilize the columnstore index without impacting the OLTP workload ...

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