Times every visual on a report page as it loads, splitting the result into DAX query and render time; you can copy each visual's query or open it in DAX query view. It is available in Power BI Desktop and while editing reports in the service.
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Terms in this definition
- DAX query
A query against a semantic model that returns a table, comparable to a T-SQL SELECT. It is written with
EVALUATE, optionally preceded byDEFINEfor query-only measures and variables and followed byORDER BY, and it doesn't alter the model. - DAX query view
Desktop's workspace for typing and running DAX queries (EVALUATE, DEFINE), also offered in the service as Write DAX queries. Copilot can help write them, and measures you create in a query can be pushed into the model with Update model with changes.
- Power BI Desktop
A free Windows program where authors connect to sources, shape and model data, and design reports before publishing them to the Power BI service. Dashboards are not made here.