PowerQuery - Validating queries when saving is taking excessively long time

I'm struggling to be able to work efficiently with Dataflows as I am experiencing excessive times to 'validate' queries after pressing the 'Save & Close' button. For entities with even a minimal amou...

Data Modeling

Anonymous

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6 years ago

Same here. I have been testing by building a simple data flows with just a table date inside, which generate in 1 or 2 seconds on the desktop version, the preview in dataflows online also generates in the same time.

However, when I click on the button to save the data flows, the validation phase is still going on after 20 minutes and +

I have no idea what is going on but this is really a big big blocker for fast development.

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