Help with optimizing DAX measure

[Anonymous]

Hello everybody,

I have a Fact table that contains 200Millions rows

I need to optimize this measure to improve response times ,the calculation of my measures takes too much time to compute (6 to 7 seconds everytime you click on something. I tried to do it with two different formulas :

KPI 1 =  SUMX(DISTINCT(SUMMARIZE(FILTER('Fact_Table','Fact_Table'[level]="Low"),'Fact_Table'[id_cv],'FACT_Table'[Server_id])),1)

KPI 2 = countrows(SUMMARIZE(FILTER('Fact_Table','Fact_Table'[level]="Low"),'Fact_Table'[id_cv],'Fact_Table'[Server_id]))

but the response time is almost the same which is 7 seconds.

anyone have a best prosposition?

Any help with this would be appreciated.

Thank you 

[AlexisOlson]

Do any of these columns exist in a dimension table or are they all exclusive to the 'Fact_Table'? Summarizing over dimensions is likely faster.

Is your situation such that you could use SUMMARIZECOLUMNS here?

KPI =
COUNTROWS (
    SUMMARIZECOLUMNS (
        'Fact_Table'[id_cv],
        'Fact_Table'[Server_id],
        TREATAS ( { "Low" }, 'Fact_Table'[level] )
    )
)

You could also try counting one or the other summarized columns using DISTINCTCOUNT or SUMX:

KPI 1 =
SUMX (
    SUMMARIZECOLUMNS (
        'Fact_Table'[id_cv],
        TREATAS ( { "Low" }, 'Fact_Table'[level] ),
        "@Rows", CALCULATE ( DISTINCTCOUNT ( 'Fact_Table'[Server_id] ) )
    ),
    [@Rows]
)

KPI 2 =
SUMX (
    SUMMARIZECOLUMNS (
        'Fact_Table'[Server_id],
        TREATAS ( { "Low" }, 'Fact_Table'[level] ),
        "@Rows", CALCULATE ( SUMX ( VALUES ( 'Fact_Table'[id_cv] ), 1 ) )
    ),
    [@Rows]
)

[PaulOlding · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous 

Unfortunately these don't look like particularly inefficient queries to me. (Obviously without seeing the real data).

The immediate thing that springs to mind is an aggregation table, so the query can be run on a table with much less than 200m rows.  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/transform-model/aggregations-advanced 

However, you'll immediately hit a limitation of agg tables: your 'Fact Table' would need to be in DirectQuery mode.  This article explains a workaround for that: https://dax.tips/2019/11/15/creative-aggs-part-vi-shadow-models/ 

[Anonymous]

@PaulOlding @smpa01 : thank you both for your help i will try the solution with the aggregation table to decrease the data volume and reduce the response time.

[smpa01]

@Anonymous  I second with @PaulOlding; as much as any DAX enthusiast would love optimizing an inefficient measure, 6sec for a 200 mil dataset does not sound unreasonable unless you bring an aggregated table from the server and run the measure which will astronomically reduce the evaluation time.

[Jihwan_Kim]

Hi,

Please try the below.

KPI 2 =
COUNTROWS (
CALCULATETABLE (
SUMMARIZE ( 'Fact_Table', 'Fact_Table'[id_cv], 'Fact_Table'[Server_id] ),
FILTER ( 'Fact_Table', 'Fact_Table'[level] = "Low" )
)
)

[Anonymous]

Hello @Jihwan_Kim , 

Unfortunately, it takes too much time to compute 21seconds

[smpa01]

@Anonymous  does this improve?

KPI 1 =
COUNTROWS (
    FILTER (
        SUMMARIZE (
            'Fact_Table',
            'Fact_Table'[level],
            'Fact_Table'[id_cv],
            'FACT_Table'[Server_id]
        ),
        'Fact_Table'[level] = "Low"
    )
)

or this

KPI1 =
COUNTROWS (
    CALCULATETABLE (
        SUMMARIZE ( 'Table', 'Table'[Server_id], 'Table'[id_cv], 'Table'[level] ),
        KEEPFILTERS ( 'Table'[level] = "Low" )
    )
)

@Anonymous  please test out the above two

[Anonymous]

@smpa01 thanks for your answer.

Unfortunately no, the response time is the same: 6 seconds