The Benefits Of Using Direct Lake Mode In Power BI
This is a blog post I’ve been meaning to write for a long time. Since Fabric launched there has been a lot of focus on Direct Lake mode ...
3 days ago
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Understanding The “Database Was Evicted To Balance The CPU Load” Error In Power BI
A few months ago I wrote about a rare error – the “Maximum allowable memory allocation” error – that may occur when th...
10 days ago
Power BI DirectQuery Mode: A Better Choice Than You Might Think
For as long as I’ve been using Power BI – which has been from the beginning – the advice about which storage mode to choose ...
17 days ago
New Book: “Extreme DAX” 2nd Edition
“Extreme DAX” by Michiel Rozema, Madzy Stikkelorum and Henk Vlootman Continuing my series of not-reviews of the latest Power BI-re...
24 days ago
Improve Performance Of Staging In Fabric Dataflows Gen2 By Disabling V-Order
Quite a few new Dataflows Gen2 features were released recently without much fanfare, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t important. ...
1 month ago
Fabric Dataflows Gen2 And Concurrent Evaluation, Part 3: Is More Parallelism Always Good?
To finish off my series of posts on concurrent evaluation in Fabric Dataflows Gen2 (see part 1 and part 2) I decided to do some more realistic...
1 month ago
Fabric Dataflows Gen2 And Concurrent Evaluation, Part 2: Partitioned Compute
In the first part of this series I showed how the Concurrency setting in a Fabric Dataflows Gen2 can affect refresh performance when there are...
1 month ago
Fabric Dataflows Gen2 And Concurrent Evaluation, Part 1
Did you know that if your Fabric Dataflows Gen2 contains several queries then you can control how many of them are evaluated in parallel when ...
1 month ago
Understanding The “You’ve Exceeded The Capacity Limit For Dataset Refreshes” Error in Power BI
If you have a lot of Power BI semantic models that are scheduled to refresh at the same time in the Service then you may find that some of the...
1 month ago
Power BI Semantic Model Memory Errors, Part 5: The “Maximum Allowable Memory Allocation” Error
This is a very late addition to the series of posts I wrote back in 2024 and which started here on Power BI memory errors. It’s about a ...
2 months ago
