22-25 April 2026
Video unavailable
SQLBits 2022

Exploring DAX Studio performance metrics internals

Go down the rabbit hole of DAX Studio internals that provides performance metrics to find performance bottlenecks in DAX.
DAX Studio is a free, open-source tool widely used to write, debug, and optimize DAX. This session focuses on Server Timings and Query Plan panes, two features to find performance bottlenecks. The documentation is never enough, and in an open-source tool, when you have time… you write code instead of writing documentation! Well, you can live without knowing all the minor details to use DAX Studio. But if you used DAX Studio and are curious to know how it works internally and the more obscure internal details of the numbers produced, this is a unique chance. The person who wrote the code of those features (Marco) explains how they work, showing the C# code when it makes sense. Advice: while the session aims to entertain the audience with unnecessary details, there is always a risk of learning something useful.