Marc Lelijveld breaks out the thermometer:
As part of Microsoft Fabric, a new storage mode to connect from Power BI to data in OneLake has been introduced. Direct Lake it makes to possible to use your data from OneLake in Power BI without taking an additional copy of the data. Where Direct Lake promises to deliver the performance of Import-mode with the real-time capabilities of Direct query, it is time to have a closer look how data gets loaded into memory and delving into the concept of data dictionary temperature.
In this blog I will explain when data gets loaded into memory, elaborate on how you can measure the dictionary temperature of your data and the effect of queries on the temperature.
Click through to see what affects this measure and how.