Many of you have likely been trying to envision how you may implement these data imports in your environment. You may ask yourself questions such as the following:
- If data imported into Power BI uses an in-memory technology, did my company provide me a machine that has enough memory to handle this?
- Am I really going to import my source table with tens of billions of rows into memory?
- How do I handle a requirement of displaying results in real time from the source?
These are all excellent questions that would have many negative answers if the only way to connect to your data was by importing your source into Power BI. Fortunately, there is another way. Using DirectQuery, Power BI allows you to connect directly to a data source ...
