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Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices
Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices

Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices: A comprehensive guide to building consistently fast Power BI solutions

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  • Learn how to build performant data models and apply Row-Level Security
  • Identify and fix performance issues in reports, DAX, and datasets using DAX Studio/VertiPaq Analyzer
  • Use a formal process to manage performance, from setting targets to monitoring and remediating issues

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This book comprehensively covers every layer of Power BI, from the report canvas to data modeling, transformations, storage, and architecture. Developers and architects working with any area of Power BI will be able to put their knowledge to work with this practical guide to design and implement at every stage of the analytics solution development process. This book is not only a unique collection of best practices and tips, but also provides you with a hands-on approach to identifying and fixing common performance issues. Complete with explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you’ll learn about common design choices that affect performance and consume more resources and how to avoid these problems. You’ll grasp the general architectural issues and settings that broadly affect most solutions. As you progress, you’ll walk through each layer of a typical Power BI solution, learning how to ensure your designs can handle scale while not sacrificing usability. You’ll focus on the data layer and then work your way up to report design. We will also cover Power BI Premium and load testing. By the end of this Power BI book, you’ll be able to confidently maintain well-performing Power BI solutions with reduced effort and know how to use freely available tools and a systematic process to monitor and diagnose performance problems.

Who is this book for?

Data analysts, BI developers, and data professionals who have learnt the basics of Power BI and now want to understand how to build advanced analytics solutions will find this business intelligence book useful. Familiarity with the major components of Power BI and a beginner-level understanding of their purpose and use cases are required.

What you will learn

  • Understand how to set realistic performance targets and address performance proactively
  • Understand how architectural options and configuration affect performance
  • Build efficient Power BI reports and data transformations
  • Explore best practices for data modeling, DAX, and large datasets
  • Understand the inner workings of Power BI Premium
  • Explore options for extreme scale with Azure services
  • Understand how to use tools that help identify and fix performance issues

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David Brown Apr 25, 2022
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I really thought this handled performance best practices well, and served as a solid basis for performance best practices. As a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and a Microsoft partner who has built solutions in this space, I feel this book offers a comprehensive perspective from an even more expert author.
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Amazon Customer Apr 27, 2022
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<disclaimer - I'm on the Power BI product team and worked with Bhavik for a number of years>This is a fantastic reference guide. Bhavik's written a thorough, detailed, approach to monitoring, diagnosing, and tuning Power BI solutions. He's looked through the technical design of reports, models, DirectQuery vs Import choices, gateways, usage logs etc. *and* he's taken the best-practices and real-world experience of the Power BI team. All of that combined makes it a great guide and an engaging read for any professional Power BI creator.
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HVAK Jun 06, 2022
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“Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices” belongs on every student and developer’s shelf, along with “The Definitive Guide to DAX” and “Star Schema”. I learned something from every chapter!It discusses performance implications for just about every aspect of Power BI. It includes patterns and best practices for common scenarios and pitfalls he has seen over the years. It is such a wealth of information, written by one of the only people on the planet who knows this much about Power BI performance: Bhavik Merchant.A glance at his LinkedIn profile shows his many years of experience working hands-on with the Microsoft BI stack. At Microsoft he wore many hats including that of a “fixer” who worked with customers struggling with Power BI performance issues--he has been in the trenches. He also led multi-day Power BI performance trainings and spoke at conferences on the subject. His last role at Microsoft was the Power BI Performance PM, so this book is a swan song because I know the time and sacrifice it took to put this together. Any author will tell you: no one gets rich writing technical books.
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spord Apr 27, 2022
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If you are a pro Power BI developer, you probably already know many of the performance tuning techniques. But all these techniques are scattered everywhere in different blogs, videos, MS documentation etc. But this book collects all those techniques and with added explanation to help developers tune the performance. I highly recommend this book to anyone working on Power BI data models and reports.
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Sarabjit Jun 03, 2024
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Pages are not properly binded , page are folded,book is good useful, only printing issue.happy with book contents
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