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Query Folding and the Power BI Dataflows Enhanced Compute Engine

Matthew Roche dives into Power BI’s enhanced compute engine:

I’ve been seeing more questions lately about the dataflows enhanced compute engine in Power BI. Although I published a video overview and although there is feature coverage in the Power BI documentation, there are a few questions that I haven’t seen readily answered online.

A lot of these questions can be phrased as “what happens when I turn on the enhanced compute engine for my Power BI Premium capacity?”

Most of my responses start with the phrase “it depends” – so let’s look at some of the factors the answer depends on.

Click through for those factors.