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ipkus
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2 months ago
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When to Choose Views vs. Materialized Lake Views

This is a question that comes up often as teams start designing their Fabric architecture. The decision looks simple, but it can directly impact Power BI performance, Direct Lake vs. DirectQuery, dat...
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    ipkus
    1 month ago

    Thanks for your inputs. What I really love with Fabric is we have pretty solid choices based on Architectural choices, whether we want to proactively have Fabric do work in case of MLV or do the work in real time in case of views. The solution depends on what direction works for our use case.

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v-kathullac
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1 month ago

Hi ipkus​ ,

Absolutely, I agree. Fabric provides a good level of architectural flexibility, allowing us to choose between approaches based on the specific workload requirements. MLV can be a good fit when you want Fabric to proactively process and materialize data for better performance, while Views are more suitable when real-time data access and flexibility are the priority. Ultimately, the right choice comes down to the required data freshness, query performance, workload pattern, and overall business use case.

I hope this helps resolve your issue.

Thanks,

Chaithanya.