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Importing Data from ADLS Gen2 into Power BI

Chris Webb summarizes a significant amount of work:

Over the last few months I’ve written a series of posts looking at different aspects of one question: what is the best way to import data from ADLSgen2 storage into a Power BI dataset? For example, is Parquet really better than CSV? Should you use Azure Synapse Serverless? In this post I’m going to summarise my findings and offer some recommendations – although, as always, I need to stress that these are the conclusions I can draw from my test results and not the absolute, incontrovertible “Microsoft-says” truth so please do your own testing too.

Read on and check it out for yourself.