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

ryan0585

Advocate II

6 years ago

I've personally been using a blank query and copying from a Power BI Desktop model into Dataflows so I can incorporate custom queries. It got better as I added more data sources to the Dataflow, but the first Save & Close took quite a bit of time, much longer than the same model I created through Power BI Desktop. No crazy merging/appending going on... I tend to do most of my work in SQL prior to Power BI, and the queries there are pretty efficient.

EDIT: Nope, didn't get better, got far worse, and now my dataflow just won't save. Several hours wasted trying to covnert my shared dataset over to a dataflow.

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