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Anonymous
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8 years ago
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power bi store data in byte?

Hi,   i have one query for storing data in bytes. for example if I am using SQL DB as datasource and in DB i use decimal (38,10) and int datattype columns. at SQL DB front these columns take 17 b...
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  • v-ljerr-msft's avatar
    v-ljerr-msft
    8 years ago

    Hi Anonymous,

     

    In Power BI, VertiPaq stores each column in a separate data structure. This simple fact allows the engine to implement some extremely important compressions and encoding. Here is a good article about VertiPaq, which could help you understand how the VertiPaq engine stores data in Power BI. :smileyhappy:

     

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v-ljerr-msft
Microsoft Employee
8 years ago

Hi Anonymous,

 

In Power BI, VertiPaq stores each column in a separate data structure. This simple fact allows the engine to implement some extremely important compressions and encoding. Here is a good article about VertiPaq, which could help you understand how the VertiPaq engine stores data in Power BI. :smileyhappy:

 

Regards

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    8 years ago

    Thanks v-ljerr-msft for sharing, it is very informative and detailed document.

    so consider this, I can say Power BI use VertPaq engine and it has many methods to compress the data and these methods would be applicable according to the nature of data.

     

    Am I right ?