This is going to sound strange, but one of the things I like about tuning Power BI DirectQuery semantic models is that their generally-slower ...
If you’re performance tuning a Power BI report the most important thing you need to measure – and the thing your users certainly c...
For some reason I haven’t had any free copies of books to review recently; maybe the market for tech books has finally collapsed with AI...
Some good news: an important optimisation has rolled out for Excel PivotTables connected to Power BI semantic models! Back in 2019 I wrote abo...
Here’s a fun DAX performance tip that I found this week. Do you have measures that use Calculate() with a filter on a numeric column? Is...
Carrying on my series on troubleshooting Power BI performance problems with Performance Analyzer, another situation where a report may be slow...
When a user complains about their Power BI report being slow it’s normal for the developer to open up DAX Studio and start tuning the me...
One very common cause of Power BI performance problems is having a table with a large number of rows on your report. It’s a problem I wr...
As the saying goes, history doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes. While 2025 has seen the excitement around new advances in AI continue t...
To kick off my series on diagnosing Power BI performance problems with Performance Analyzer in the browser (which I introduced last week with ...
