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Direct Query performance not as expected

Hi,

I´m trying to get data from a DirectQuery from a SQL Server DB (14GB and 230k rows) but performance is not as expected. It takes more than 10 minutes to show data in the PowerBi report. How can I improve the performance? Server where DB has 16GB RAM and intel Xeon(4 cores). Power is being run from a 16GB Server Xeon 2 and I also assigned 8192MB cache from "cache management options".

Thank you for your help!

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Optimizations need to be applied directly to the data source to achieve good performance results.There isn't specific to way to improve power bi performance, you need improve many aspects depends on your model. 

Please check the doc and example links:

DirectQuery Optimization in Power BI Desktop - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

 

Improve performance with DirectQuery by using Inner Joins - Kasper On BI

Improve Power BI Performance by Optimizing DAX | MAQ Software

 

Paul Zheng _ Community Support Team
If this post helps, please Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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Anonymous
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@Anonymous 

Optimizations need to be applied directly to the data source to achieve good performance results.There isn't specific to way to improve power bi performance, you need improve many aspects depends on your model. 

Please check the doc and example links:

DirectQuery Optimization in Power BI Desktop - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

 

Improve performance with DirectQuery by using Inner Joins - Kasper On BI

Improve Power BI Performance by Optimizing DAX | MAQ Software

 

Paul Zheng _ Community Support Team
If this post helps, please Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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