New Server Timings features in DAX Studio 2.5.0 #dax #powerbi #ssas #tabular

Last week, a new version of DAX Studio (2.5.0) has been released. You can find a summary of the new features in the blog post from Darren Gosbell - thanks Darren for your wonderful job with this tool!

My small contribution to this tool is mainly in the area of performance analysis. In the last few months, I worked on implementing a support for DirectQuery, which I described in the article Analyze DirectQuery requests using DAX Studio on SQLBI. I also fixed a few bugs in the xmSQL formatting code (we clean up a number of verbose information, but sometimes we still cut too much from xmSQL, expect more fixes in upcoming releases). But I also added a small feature that will help to save a lot of time in performance analysis.

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