Chris Webb - Fabric Direct Lake Deep Dive

[@Milhouse77BS]

46:06 so we can control when the new data is available to Direct Lake so data consistent. Such as both Sales and Inventory data changing at the same time.

[@nitinat3590]

Very helpful! Surprisingly only 3k views after 5 months, should have been 300k

[@BenHoward_PowerBI]

Well, please share the video widely if you can. thanks!

[@nitinat3590]

@@BenHoward_PowerBI I am already doing it!

[@Milhouse77BS]

26:14 killer Direct Lake feature is reuse of dimensions with shortcuts.

[@vamsikrishna254]

Fabulous information ❤it . This is what I am looking for. Thanks for the treasure.

[@Tom-kp2lv]

Thank you! Great vid, very helpful! BUT, those limitations are total show stoppers. I'm looking forward to when fabric matures, but it sure doesn't seem ready for prime time yet. And it seems that the "guard rails" are likely to be serious limitations. You mention row limitations, but what about width? Also, I hope there is a plan to develop a path for translating PBIs in desktop to use this. If I have to rebuild all of my models from scratch, that is another block. What I don't understand is where all of the data modeling that I currently do in azure sql would happen in this new world? I hope this evolves to be usable - conceptually it's great. But for now, it doesn't appear to be a viable option for real world use - yet!

[@ws3457]

I think the idea is that you do your data modeling in Power Bi as a semantic model for Fabric.

[@Tom-kp2lv]

@@ws3457 Yeah there's no way I could efficiently do the extensive modeling required to create a star schema in pbi. That needs to happen earlier in the chain of events (upstream), as per Roche's Maixm!

[@ws3457]

@@Tom-kp2lvThat it does!