Share your thoughts on DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services (preview)

[tessahurr]

Hit Reply and let us know what you think of the DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services.  To learn more about this feature, please visit this blog post or our documentation.

Here are some areas that we'd like to hear about in particular:

• Performance
• Query editor experience--the remote model query doesn't show up in the query editor and only in the data source settings dialog. What are your thoughts?
• Navigator experience
• Thoughts around governance and permissions for models that leverage this feature
• Nesting models, i.e. building a composite model on top of a composite model
• Automatic page refresh for live connect in composite models

Thanks and we look forward to hearing your feedback!

- The Power BI Modeling Team

[AnonymousPerson]

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@drewlarson wrote:

One issue I noticed right away is that it doesn't seem like date heirachy from the Power BI dataset i'm connecting to is supported. Any chance that can get fixed? 

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@drewlarson I think the limitation with date hierarchies was addressed in the blog post....

You may see some unexpected behavior when using a date hierarchy. To resolve this issue, use a date column instead. After adding a date hierarchy to a visual, you can switch to a date column by clicking on the down arrow in the field name and clicking on the name of that field instead of using “Date Hierarchy”:

This behavior will be addressed later in the preview.
For more information on using date columns versus date hierarchies, visit this article.

[WillHopkins]

Very disappointed SQL Svr Analysis Services is not yet support. Can you clarify what release of SQL Svr will be needed and when we can expect it?

[jeroenterheerdt]

We are looking at the next major release of SQL Server. The feature name is "...Azure Analysis Services" on purpose 🙂

[WillHopkins]

Thanks that is helpful information. We will keep and eye out for the feature. 

[ggaudfroy]

C'est la nouveauté de 2020!

Joli cadeau de Noel!!

[psolli]

@tessahurr We are currently building models and testing it. So far it looks fantastic. This is the new Holy Grail of Business Intelligence. Power ON will report back with all findings shortly.  We will be making some very exciting anouncements soon for the Power BI Community as well. Just need to make sure it is all there.

Must be a very excting day for the Product Team. Congratulations!

Per

[sam_xlpowerbi]

Game changer - however the performace is quite poor even on small data sets (30 K) rows

Cheer Sam

[jeroenterheerdt]

can you give us some more details on the scenario here?

[n8ball]

EDIT: I see sort by column is not currently supported in the documentation.  Sorry posting before seeing that.
Loving it so far. One possible bug I have found is that converting from Live Connection to DirectQuery for PBI datasets breaks sort by column.