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Optimize Power BI semantic models for maximum performance — star schema design, relationship tuning, storage modes, and query optimization.
Optimize Power BI data refresh — scheduling strategies, incremental refresh, hybrid tables, monitoring, and troubleshooting failed refreshes.
Master Power BI performance tuning with VertiPaq Analyzer. Learn how the columnar storage engine works, analyze dictionary size, data size, hierarchy size, identify bloated columns, understand cardinality analysis, encoding types (value vs hash vs RLE), and apply optimization techniques for model size reduction.
Learn how to monitor Power BI environments with the Admin Portal, Premium Capacity Metrics app, Azure Log Analytics, gateway health checks, Power Automate alerts, and custom monitoring dashboards for proactive performance management.
Master query folding in Power Query to dramatically improve Power BI data refresh performance. Learn how to verify folding, identify operations that break it, troubleshoot native queries, and optimize M language patterns for maximum source-side execution.
Master DirectQuery performance for billion-row databases with proven optimization strategies including aggregation tables, dual storage mode, query reduction, connection pooling, gateway tuning, and materialized views at the source.
Master the Performance Analyzer in Power BI Desktop to diagnose slow reports. Learn to interpret DAX query times, visual display durations, and leverage DAX Studio and VertiPaq Analyzer for deep optimization.
Master Power BI Premium and Fabric capacity planning. Learn SKU sizing, CU consumption, autoscale, monitoring, and cost optimization for enterprise deployments.
Master Power BI incremental refresh and data partitioning to cut refresh times by 95%. Enterprise strategies for datasets exceeding 100GB.
Diagnose and fix slow Power BI reports. DAX optimization, data model tuning, query folding, aggregations, and capacity planning for enterprise dashboards.
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