22-25 April 2026 
Cracking Power BI Performance Tuning in a day!
2022TL; DR
Creating a Power BI report may look like an easy task, but there is a huge difference between the report that works and the report that works efficiently!
Session Details
Congratulations! You've built your shiny fancy Power BI report and your charts look terrific. But, your data refresh takes forever...Or, your report is utterly slow when interacting with visuals...You switch to DirectQuery mode to make things better, just to discover that the report performance sucks even more...
And, if you feel lost, I don't blame you - I've also been there!
That's why this workshop is for you: we will examine potential bottlenecks in your Power BI report - starting with defining the best practices for data model size optimization, understanding the importance of query folding feature, all the way to identifying culprits for your slow report rendering. We will wrap it up with learning when and why (not) to use DirectQuery mode, and how to apply improvements on the data source side to make things faster in the Power BI.
Feedback Link - https://sqlb.it/?6201
And, if you feel lost, I don't blame you - I've also been there!
That's why this workshop is for you: we will examine potential bottlenecks in your Power BI report - starting with defining the best practices for data model size optimization, understanding the importance of query folding feature, all the way to identifying culprits for your slow report rendering. We will wrap it up with learning when and why (not) to use DirectQuery mode, and how to apply improvements on the data source side to make things faster in the Power BI.
Feedback Link - https://sqlb.it/?6201
3 things you'll get out of this session
Speakers
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Lessons learned from optimizing enterprise data models
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