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Monitoring Power BI Desktop Activity Using Extended Events In SQL Server Management Studio

Monitoring Power BI Desktop Activity Using Extended Events In SQL Server Management Studio
Something I do all the time when performance tuning Power BI is use SQL Server Profiler to monitor query and refresh activity. There’s a handy external tool that lets you open up Profiler with a connection to Power BI Desktop; if you’re using Power BI Premium you can also connect Profiler up to a published […]

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