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Reducing The Number Of Queries Generated By Excel Cube Function Reports On Power BI, Analysis Services And Power Pivot

Chris Webb BI

I am a big fan of using Excel cube functions for reporting on Power BI datasets, Analysis Services and Power Pivot: they allow for a lot more layout flexibility than PivotTables when building reports in Excel. However, they do have a reputation for poor performance and part of the reason for this is their chattiness. While Excel does not generate one query for each cell containing a cube function, it is true that a report using cube functions will generate a lot more MDX queries against your Pow

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