Power BI Best Practice: Use Dedicated Views and Schema to Fetch Data

If getting data from a relational source such as SQL Server, use views to abstract the report from the physical layout of database tables and never write queries inside reports; from a maintenance and development standpoint, it is simpler and faster to update a view than it is to edit a query inside a report and then republish the report.

Also, if available, create a separate schema for the views for grouping and security purposes.  This is the recommended architecture:

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