22-25 April 2026 
SQLBits 2022
Big data analytics with Power BI
Learn how to unlock massive datasets for interactive analysis, accelerating time to insight, and reducing TCO.
With exponential growth in data volumes and complexity, Power BI customers demand enterprise BI solutions that scale to petabytes, are secure, easy to manage, and accessible to all users across the largest organizations. This session will dive into the latest Power BI investments for analytics over big data. Use hybrid tables for blazing fast query performance over multi-billion row datasets combining real-time capabilities – without the need to refresh the dataset. Power BI automatic aggregations automatically create and manage aggregated caches based on usage patterns to boost query performance. Learn how to unlock massive datasets for interactive analysis, accelerating time to insight, and reducing TCO.
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Speakers
Christian Wade's previous sessions
Big data analytics with Power BI
Learn how to unlock massive datasets for interactive analysis, accelerating time to insight, and reducing TCO.
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