In this session, we’ll dive into the Direct Lake, the new Power BI storage mode that seamlessly blends DirectQuery’s real-time capabilities and Import mode’s performance.

We unravel how this promising technology impacts traditional data modeling approaches, posing essential questions on star schemas, surrogate keys, SCDs, and other classical dimensional modeling techniques.

This session equips you with a deeper understanding of the Direct Lake landscape and its implications for data modelling, empowering you to craft performant data models.

The key areas we’ll explore are:

• Overview of Direct Lake
• Impact of Direct Lake on data modeling techniques
• Redefining data transformation strategies