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Design advice needed
Hello, Being new to Power BI, I am not sure what the optimal design for the following problem is. Any thoughts/ideas would be appreciated. I would like to create a business user friendly data...
Hi amir_tohidi,
I think asocorro has suggested a nice way.
Since there are large nuymber of records in transaction table, it may be difficult to process the data in native connection mode (Import mode ) for power BI.
There is another connection mode called "Direct Query" which does not load data into power BI but just facilitates visualisation.
Processing happens at back end.
Since you have SQL server, import excel data in SQL Server.
Then Connect to SQL Server and all other tables with Direct Query.
This will help you
Hi achinm45,
I am using DirectQuery already as I din't want to load so many rows into Power BI.
Hereis the data model (FraudCodes hasn't been added yet)
Finally, here is the error: