As I described here, Power BI can send SQL queries in parallel in DirectQuery mode and you can see from the Timeline column there is some parallelism happening here – the last two SQL queries ...

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If you’re performance tuning a Power BI report the most important thing you need to measure – and the thing your users certainly care about most – is how long it takes for a report page to load. Yet ...