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Using Power BI DMVs

Kasper de Jonge shows off a few Power BI dynamic management views:

Today a quick one that I came across while writing a different blog post that I will blog later. I know we have talked about it again and again but a good best practice is to remove any high carnality columns you don’t necessary need. This trick is not new and has been blogged about before in different places but I wanted to emphasize it again due to the importance.

I was finishing up my next blog post and wanted to upload the sample file. While doing that I noticed the file was 150MB large. That is rather large for such a simple file. The largest table has 500,000 rows and none of them are unique. What is going on?

There are some interesting DMVs in Kasper’s post, including one which shows cardinality by column.