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Close and Apply Without processing in PBI Desktop
Hi All, Like in SSDT, we have Close and Apply without processing. Is there any way to do same thing in pbi desktop ? Whenever we create something in Edit Query, it expects us to re process the t...
but when I publish it to AAS, again I will have to enable it right. And in that case again it will expect me to process the table.
So you mean during developement phase, I need to disable this. Once it is done we have to enable it again and publish it to cloud.
Right. If publishing to BI device you can do incremental refresh. Not sure if you can do in azure. But I’d assume so.
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/tag/incremental-refresh/
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/tag/incremental-refresh/
- Another trick in development mode is to go into query editor and so trivial edit to the one data source you want to update. (Add or remove sort) then close and apply and it will only updated that one table/source (well all tables that use that source)
- After query is loaded into your data model
- Go to PowerQuery (Edit Queries)
- Right Click Query name - add trivial like a sort, renaming a column you don't actually use or, something else (that does not change or transform your data in any way) as the last step in the transformation
- Close and Apply - PowerBi should refresh/update that dataset without needing to refresh all the the other ones.
For example I have many queries some quite large from external sources and I have a lookup table I maintain to bridge in some dummy customers that arn't yet in our main DB that I append to the master data I pull in from our ODS server. If I want to just updated that table I go into the query editor and either delete or add the sort step at the end. When I close and apply that data soruces that use this lookup table without updating the other ones.