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Data Capacity
hi, i have a sql view with size of 16000MB, i have abput 4 duplicates of this view in the .pbix file in order to deal with complex data & business. is it too big fot power BI to deal with? my compu...
If your computer crushes that might be sign of a bigger issue. Might need to check the system event logs for that.
As for how much data you can fit in Power BI Dektop, you still are long way to go. I've managed to load 4 bn rows (232-2 to be precise) into Power BI.
https://querypower.com/2017/02/04/power-bi-desktop-limit/
As to your particular case run though the following checklist:
- have you defined a CommandTimeout?
- have you tried to Buffer the data? Very useful if you are doing lots of M processing in your queries.
- have you tried splitting out the initial select query into chunks? I know that Power BI gives you very little control over the parallelism that you can achieve, but you can trick it with merging queries that wait on other queries to finish (Table.Combine)
- check the trace logs from Power BI and also fire profiler on SQL Server side to get an idea on what is actually happening with that select * from table
