Reza Rad offers up some advice:
The Lakehouse or Warehouse comes with a default Power BI Sematic model, which can be used for reporting and analytics. However, you can also build and use a customized semantic model. There are significant differences when using the semantic model in real-world analytics projects. In this article, I’ll explain the difference between these two, which one is recommended, and why.
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