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Automated backups: Can I switch data source if the main one is empty?
Hi all, Need some help conceptually more than anything... We get a daily download of data which supersedes the previous day's data (in a SharePoint List) and this feeds our Power BI reports. It w...
Is the original source a SharePoint list? Why not connect directly to the list?
I'm not sure what you mean by show a gap though, you mean someone would upload an empty file? Or forget an upload? Is it using the folder connector for multiple files or is it a single file right now?
General Power BI Service philosophy is to only swap in the "new" data if the refresh is successful. That way there will be no gaps on failure.
Exception: Incremental refresh with meta data change.
