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ua77
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5 months ago

GitHub integration and incremental refresh – how to avoid overwriting data?

I have a Power BI semantic model with incremental refresh enabled. I am using a GitHub connection for version control, and I make changes in a dev workspace connected to a new branch before merging t...
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anilelmastasi
Super User
5 months ago

Hello ua77 , with overwriting what did you mean? Partitions disappeared? Full refresh triggered? Or actual historical data is lost?

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    ua77
    Frequent Visitor
    5 months ago

    Hi,
    I am experiencing both partitions that have disappeared and historical data that is lost.

    When I accept incoming changes from main, all existing partitions (and their data) disappear. When I trigger a refresh of the semantic model, it starts a full refresh and rebuilds all partitions from scratch. The problem is that the full refresh takes a long time and causes downtime for the reports (until the refresh is completed).