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5 years ago
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Which causes greater load stress?

Our sysadmin wants to use one giant power bi model (fed by dataflows and in import mode) to create reports from.   Basically, his idea is build a giant model and have people build reports from this d...
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    5 years ago

    Hi Anonymous,

     

    If you consider reducing the load on the back-end system, using import mode is definitely a good idea, but considering the need to import data into Power BI, importing data and refreshing it will consume a lot of time if the data source is updated frequently.

    Please refer Optimization guide for Power BI.

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/power-bi-optimization

    If you still have some question, please don't hesitate to let me known.‌‌

     

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5 years ago

Hi Anonymous,

 

If you consider reducing the load on the back-end system, using import mode is definitely a good idea, but considering the need to import data into Power BI, importing data and refreshing it will consume a lot of time if the data source is updated frequently.

Please refer Optimization guide for Power BI.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/power-bi-optimization

If you still have some question, please don't hesitate to let me known.‌‌

 

Best Regards,

Link

 

Is that the answer you're looking for? If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution. Really appreciate!