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 ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & HELSINKI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MariaDB ® Corporation today announced the certification and immediate availability of the MariaDB Direct Query Adapter in Microsoft Power BI. MariaDB ...

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