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⚡ Power BI Performance Optimizations: From Minutes to Seconds

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NHariGouthami
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1 year ago
Power BI is one of the most powerful reporting platforms out there. But as datasets grow, even well-designed reports can start taking minutes to render — something no business user enjoys. I rece...
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jeffshieldsdev
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11 months ago

Due to VertiPaq storage engine hash encoding, won't strings and integers both end up as hashes in the data model anyway? Are you sure the performance enhancement you saw here weren't related to the other optimizations?