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PowerBI123456
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Data Modeling Best Practice

Hi,

 

I am working with our DBA team to model one of our main fact data sources in our server, which is healthcare claim level data that goes to insurance payers. I am trying to see what the best practice is on how to store data like this for the best power bi performance:

 

This is how the table looks:

 

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This is what I want it to look like so it can be a star schema and I can connect different dimension tables to it. The problem with this is that it can get into 100billion rows due to the row splits. Should I be worried about row count? If so, what is another way of doing it?

 

PowerBI123456_1-1647444468612.png

 

I would appreciate any best tips and best practices. 

 

Thanks!

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mh2587
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Super User

Try waterfall model for details review the following articles 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Data-Modelling-In-Power-BI-Helpful-Tips-amp-Best-Pra...


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