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fayanan
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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?

 

 

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v-angzheng-msft
Community Support
Community Support

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.

vangzhengmsft_0-1630302425245.png

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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v-angzheng-msft
Community Support
Community Support

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.

vangzhengmsft_0-1630302425245.png

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.

Ashish_Mathur
Super User
Super User

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.


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/

This is correct. @Ashish_Mathur  just deleted columns even though its look like blanks.. 

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