allow yourself a good slice of the data to work with. the recommendation is to set Incremental processing up over a relational data store.įor the desktop. Its possible to query fold over a Sharepoint list. Its not recommended to run incremental processing on data sources that cant query fold (flat files, web feeds) You do get a warning message if you cant fold the query
Query Folding – RangeStart and RangeEnd will be pushed to the source system. Range Start and Range End are set in the background when you run power BI. The two parameters that need setting up for incremental loading are RangeStart, RangeEnd Go to transform data to get to the power Query Editor (You can either be in desktop or creating a dataflow in Service) Set up incremental Refresh in Power Query Editor. Can you define the Static Date within the table that will be used for the Incremental refresh?Įach of these points are very important and will establish what you need to do to set up the incremental refresh, from your data source up to power BI Desktop and Service.Which tables in your data set need incremental refresh?.How many years worth of data do you want to retain?.If rows can be updated, how far back does this go?.Are new rows simply added to the dataset in power BI?.This should have been fixed in April so here is a quick check list of how you approach incremental Refresh Define your Incremental Refresh Policy Error Resource Name and Location Name Need to Match.
Incremental Refresh came available for Power BI Pro a few months ago but when tested there was am issue.