If you’re using Power BI in DirectQuery mode against a SQL Server-related data source (ie SQL Server on-prem, Azure SQL DB or Synapse) you may have noticed a new feature that was released a few weeks ago: query labels that allow you to link a SQL query to the Power BI visual that generated it.
There’s nothing you need to do to enable it – it happens automatically. Here’s an example of a TSQL query generated by a DirectQuery mode dataset with it in:
You can see that an OPTION clause in the query adds a label that contains three GUIDs that identify the dataset, report and visual that the query was generated for. These are the same GUIDs that you’ll see used for this purpose in other places, for example Log Analytics. This post has more details on how you can work out which datasets, reports and and visuals these GUIDs relate to.
As I said, this only works for SQL Server-related sources at the moment, but if you think this would be useful for other sources (and I’m sure you do…) please leave a comment below!
This is awesome – any chance this will be added to Queries made from PowerQuery via data models / data flows? Would be great to know which models are generating which queries on our DB backend!
Really great. Makes performance tuning much simpler