topic Re: Stop Dataflow from Refreshing/Recalculating while Developing in Data Engineering

Stop Dataflow from Refreshing/Recalculating while Developing

adamlob — Thu, 21 May 2026 23:25:58 GMT

Is there anyway to stop a Dataflow from refreshing/recalculating while developing?

Even when in schema view and/or limiting the query to 1 row of data some times takes too long between writing lines of code.

Would be nice if there was a way to turn off refresh until save/validation or similar.

ati_puri — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:39:33 GMT

Did you try preview-only steps feature of DataFlow Gen2. This will execute only authoring and exclude runtime refresh.

Here is the Microsoft link to use this feature.

Let me know if this works.

Thanks

Ati Puri