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Column Limit Exceeded
I have a dataset with 27 columns. Whenever I try to load it, it says that "The total number of columns in the model is 16414, which exceeds the limit of 16000." See below screenshot. How do I work around this?
Hi, fayanan
16,000 is the maximum amount of columns.
If you want to know more about that, you can refer to below link: Data sources for the Power BI service
There are only 27 columns in your data set, which obviously does not exceed the column limit.
Please check if there is a conflict between the names of your worksheet and the table.If you have a tbale name with the same name as you sheet, when connect to this excel file, Power BI will rename your table name. It can cause this issue.
For reference:
Total number of columns exceeded (but data was not changed)
Error Msg : Column Exceeds 16000 limit but there are only 100 colmns in the excel table
Hope this helps.
Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Zeon Zheng
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Hi,
If your source is an MS Excel file, then delete all columns after the last column. Save and close the Excel file and retry.
This is correct. Ashish_Mathur just deleted columns even though its look like blanks..
Hi, fayanan
16,000 is the maximum amount of columns.
If you want to know more about that, you can refer to below link: Data sources for the Power BI service
There are only 27 columns in your data set, which obviously does not exceed the column limit.
Please check if there is a conflict between the names of your worksheet and the table.If you have a tbale name with the same name as you sheet, when connect to this excel file, Power BI will rename your table name. It can cause this issue.
For reference:
Total number of columns exceeded (but data was not changed)
Error Msg : Column Exceeds 16000 limit but there are only 100 colmns in the excel table
Hope this helps.
Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Zeon Zheng
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
