Solved: Data Load in Desktop

Anonymous · ‎06-21-2019

Hi Community,

I've around 15 millions of records in Sql Server table (Data Source) and I'm using Power BI Desktop to import data. I would like to import only new records. Instead of loading the refreshing the entire data everyday is there anything that i can load only current month data. I'm using Power BI Pro version.

Thanks,

Paruch

Anonymous · ‎06-21-2019

Hi @Anonymous

There is something called incremental refresh which only updates changes or new data however this is only available to premium members. I would love this too.

The only way I have found around it is to have each week/month in a new table and then refresh only that table so it's much quicker. However, if you add a column you need to do it in all the table and not just one. It's very messy.

The only other way is to create a summary table first or cut out as much non-essential data while running the query editor.

I hope this helps, if it has please mark it as the solution 🙂

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Anonymous · ‎06-21-2019

Hi @Anonymous

There is something called incremental refresh which only updates changes or new data however this is only available to premium members. I would love this too.

The only way I have found around it is to have each week/month in a new table and then refresh only that table so it's much quicker. However, if you add a column you need to do it in all the table and not just one. It's very messy.

The only other way is to create a summary table first or cut out as much non-essential data while running the query editor.

I hope this helps, if it has please mark it as the solution 🙂