Summary
Power BI Desktop is facing severe stability issues, particularly with complex projects involving large datasets and numerous joins in the data model. Frequent crashes result in file corruption, making recovery often impossible. Offloading data modeling and processing workloads to SQL appears to be an effective solution to mitigate these challenges.
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