

Chained aggregations covering three or more tables aren't allowed.Count and Count table rows are only available for integer aggregation columns, and don't require a matching datatype. The Detail Column must have the same datatype as the Aggregation Column, except for the Count and Count table rows Summarization functions.The Manage aggregations dialog enforces validations: This is different from the big data example later in this article, where the GroupBy entries are required. Without the GroupBy entries, the aggregations would still get hit, based on the relationships. Except for DISTINCTCOUNT, they don't affect aggregation behavior and are primarily for readability. In this relationship-based aggregation example, the GroupBy entries are optional. In the following example, queries to the Sales detail table are internally redirected to the Sales Agg aggregation table. The Manage aggregations dialog shows a row for each column in the table, where you can specify the aggregation behavior.

In the Fields pane of any Power BI Desktop view, right-click the aggregations table, and then select Manage aggregations. This article describes typical Power BI data modeling differences for each type of data source. Hadoop-based big-data sources often base aggregations on GroupBy columns. You then use the Manage aggregations dialog in Power BI Desktop to define aggregations for aggregation columns with summarization, detail table, and detail column properties.ĭimensional data sources, like data warehouses and data marts, can use relationship-based aggregations. Creating aggregation tablesĭepending on the data source type, an aggregations table can be created at the data source as a table or view, as a native query, or for the greatest performance, as an import table created in Power Query. Aggregations in Power BI can be manually configured in the data model, as described in this article, or for Premium subscriptions, automatically by enabling the Automatic aggregations feature in dataset Settings. By using aggregations, you cache data at the aggregated level in-memory. Aggregations in Power BI can improve query performance over very large DirectQuery datasets.
