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Power BI Desktop and RAM
Hi everyone,
As I'm new to Power BI, when you use Power BI Desktop does it always load the entire data in your RAM ?
Is there a version of Power BI where all the data is stored on the cloud and doesn't need to load the data on my local computer ?
Thanks in advance
Power BI uses an in-memory engine so high RAM use in the desktop can happen. You can do some work in the cloud service but for more advanced modeling, Power BI is the authoring tool of record.
Edit: to be thorough I should mention that you could use DirectQuery with some data sources, but it's far from the ideal way to connect to data and Import remains the ideal:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-use-directquery
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Power BI uses an in-memory engine so high RAM use in the desktop can happen. You can do some work in the cloud service but for more advanced modeling, Power BI is the authoring tool of record.
Edit: to be thorough I should mention that you could use DirectQuery with some data sources, but it's far from the ideal way to connect to data and Import remains the ideal:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-use-directquery