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Re:Is BI dead? – On dismantling data's ship of Theseus by KptMarchewa on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @07:51PM (#28611498)
Are you running analytics on an transactional database?
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Re:Is BI dead? – On dismantling data's ship of Theseus by SilverRed on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @08:21PM (#28611722)
Yes, Power BI connects up to a read only mirror of the app sql db.
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Re:Is BI dead? – On dismantling data's ship of Theseus by krauses on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @04:24AM (#28614155)
Is the relational source db a denormalized star schema? Are you doing direct query or import in Power BI?
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