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I am unable to refresh a report in Power BI Desktop, getting the following error.
Any idea what is causing this?
Hi @sdeepa1,
I understand that you’ve encountered an error while attempting to refresh a report in Power BI Desktop. To assist you more effectively, I would appreciate if you could provide the following information:
The following one is the thread which have the similar problem as yours, hope they can help you.
Solved: DataSource.Error: An error happened while reading ... - Microsoft Fabric Community
The above solution does work albeit with a negative impact on the performance due to stopping the query folding opportunities.
While searching further on the internet I found a solution that works and it's really simple, but it also feels a little strange. For the query folding principle to keep working witht the PowerPlatform.Dataflows connector it appears that you need admin rights to the gateway. When I asked our PowerBI admin to give me admin rights on the gateway the issue was resolved and our dataflow load time went back to expected (20 minutes instead of 2 hours).
Best Regards
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