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aj1973
5 years agoCommunity Champion
One report for multiple users simultaneously
Hi Community, I have 2 questions regarding performance of a report in the service that is being used simultaneously from up to 20 users at the same time. The connection mode of this report is a D...
- 5 years ago
If you use Direct query then all optimizations need to be done at the data source. Index maintenance, statistics up to date etc. You will also want to tell the db owners to expect many concurrent connections.
Using Views will not improve things, it will likely make it worse.
If, however, you switch to Import Mode then all these problems go away magically as the data is cached in the Power BI service and it doesn't really matter any more how many users are looking at it.