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majdkaid22
9 years agoHelper V
compress dataset
Hello Community, I have a Dataset used by a user who every time create new measure or update something in the power query, would refresh the dataset on the desktop and then publish it. The D...
Phil_Seamark
9 years agoMicrosoft Employee
If your datasources is MS-SQL, have you considered building a summary table in SQL prior to Power BI rather than reading from raw tables?
What is the lowest grain you need to report on in Power BI? That would be the target level of summarisaion in SQL.
majdkaid22
9 years agoHelper V
Phil_Seamark that is a long term option which am working on. at the moment I have MYSQL DB which are a bit messy and I don't have the enough resources to structure views in there.
Guess I will have to try and go on another round of removing unrequired columns...
Cheers mate
- Phil_Seamark9 years agoMicrosoft Employee
Columns that have unique values are good ones to target. If you can get rid of these then your ability to compress will be improved.
Also if you can pivot data to be vertical rather than horizonal, this will help