Chapter 13. The VertiPaq engine
At this point in the book, you have a solid understanding of the DAX language. The next step, apart from the necessary experience that you need to gain by yourself, is not only being able to write DAX, but also to write efficient DAX. Writing efficient DAX, that is, code that runs at its best possible speed, requires you to understand the internals of the engine. The next chapters aim to provide the essential knowledge to measure and improve performance of DAX code.
More specifically, this chapter is dedicated to the internal architecture of the VertiPaq engine: the in-memory columnar database that stores and hosts your model.
Before continuing with the dissertation, it is worth mentioning a quick note. The official ...
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