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What Happens When Power BI Direct Lake Semantic Models Hit Guardrails?

What Happens When Power BI Direct Lake Semantic Models Hit Guardrails?
Direct Lake mode in Power BI allows you to build semantic models on very large volumes of data, but because it is still an in-memory database engine there are limits on how much data it can work with. As a result it has rules – called guardrails – that it uses to check whether you … Continue reading What Happens When Power BI Direct Lake Semantic Models Hit Guardrails? →

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