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Helper IIOptimizing ABC Analysis in Power BI with Large Sales Data – Exceeding Resources Issue
This type of run time calculation on large data will always be slow. I'm not surprised to hear of your issues. Anything you can do to remove unnecessary resource theft will help. I suggest remove the product description from the fact table and put it in a product table, ideally with an integer as the key for the relationship. Also, check the precision of the sales value column. Reducing precision should help, eg round to the nearest integer. Consider summarising the data across dimensions that don't matter for this calculation, eg if your data is at day level of granularity but you only do these calculations at a month level, consider creating a summarised table of data at the month level only for this calculation.
Community ChampionThis type of run time calculation on large data will always be slow. I'm not surprised to hear of your issues. Anything you can do to remove unnecessary resource theft will help. I suggest remove the product description from the fact table and put it in a product table, ideally with an integer as the key for the relationship. Also, check the precision of the sales value column. Reducing precision should help, eg round to the nearest integer. Consider summarising the data across dimensions that don't matter for this calculation, eg if your data is at day level of granularity but you only do these calculations at a month level, consider creating a summarised table of data at the month level only for this calculation.
Helper IIThank you for the suggestion! I really appreciate the insights. I’ll definitely try creating a summarized table at the month level since we typically view this indicator at a monthly minimum. This should hopefully reduce the strain on resources and allow for smoother calculations. Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction!
Hi FelipMark ,
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Yilong Zhou