Direct Lake

Concept

Direct Lake is a storage mode for Power BI semantic models in Microsoft Fabric that reads Delta tables directly from OneLake instead of importing a copy or querying the source on every click.

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Type	Concept
Documentation	learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/enterprise/directlake-overview

Episodes about Direct Lake

Microsoft Fabric をわかりやすく解説：OneLake・Lakehouse・ガバナンス・AI…

2026-11-03 · Video on YouTube

孤立したデータマート、手間のかかるパイプライン、古いデータに頼るダッシュボード。断片化、遅延、ずれ、重複は多くのデータ環境に共通する課題です。Microsoft Fabric はこれらを OneLake、ドメイン、ワークスペース、セマンティックモデルからなる一つのエコシステムにまとめます。このエピソードでは自然ドキュメンタリー風に、上流のデータが健全で適切に管理されているときにだけ Power BI が輝く理由を解説します。

Articles about Direct Lake (1)

Import vs DirectQuery vs Direct Lake: Choosing the Right Power BI Storage Mode
2026-10-22 · Mirko Peters
Compare Import, DirectQuery, and Direct Lake storage modes in Power BI to optimize report performance, data freshness, and infrastructure costs.

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Maintained by Mirko Peters (Microsoft MVP) · Last updated: 2026-11-03