You are developing a Power BI Desktop report that contains a query named Staging_Product. The query is used only as an intermediate step for a merge operation and its data is not needed in the final data model that will be published. You need to minimize both the size of the model and the overall refresh duration while preserving the transformations performed by Staging_Product. What should you do in Power Query Editor?
Set the storage mode of Staging_Product to Dual so it is loaded only on demand.
Change Staging_Product to use DirectQuery storage mode.
Clear the Enable load option for Staging_Product so the query becomes connection-only.
Clear the Include in report refresh option for Staging_Product.
Clearing the Enable load option turns the query into a connection-only object. The query still executes when referenced by other queries, so dependent transformations continue to work, but the resulting table is not loaded into the data model. This reduces model size and avoids the time required to load that data. Clearing Include in report refresh would stop Staging_Product from refreshing at all, which could break downstream queries. Changing storage mode to DirectQuery or Dual is irrelevant for a purely intermediate query.
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