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nleuck
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9 years ago
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Database refresh breaking stored procedure

Hello,   I have a question concerning stored procedures being used in Power BI desktop and refreshing the SQL database that they are imported from. I imported a stored procedure to the Power BI des...
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  • prateekraina's avatar
    prateekraina
    9 years ago

    Hi nleuck,

     

    As per my  understanding, you have used SQL Stored Procedure(SP) to source data from your database into Power BI which is absolutely fine.

    Now comes the question "What happens if you modify the Stored Procedure or refresh your SQL database"?

    Untill and Unless your changes do not alter the schema which Power BI is consuming through your SP, it will not break your visuals or anything else.

     

    So feel free to refresh your SQL database.

     

    Cheers !!

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prateekraina
Memorable Member
9 years ago

Hi nleuck,

 

As per my  understanding, you have used SQL Stored Procedure(SP) to source data from your database into Power BI which is absolutely fine.

Now comes the question "What happens if you modify the Stored Procedure or refresh your SQL database"?

Untill and Unless your changes do not alter the schema which Power BI is consuming through your SP, it will not break your visuals or anything else.

 

So feel free to refresh your SQL database.

 

Cheers !!

scorreia's avatar
scorreia
Regular Visitor
8 years ago

Hi Prateek,

I have a question. I am using a Stored Procedure inside Power BI Desktop using Import Mode. I created my visualization and everything works fine.

Now I added 2 more fields in my Stored Procedure and want to use them in Power BI. I tried Refreshing in the Query Editor but could not see the 2 new columns added to power BI.

Please can you advise?

Thanks

Sophia

  • prateekraina's avatar
    prateekraina
    Memorable Member
    8 years ago

    Hi scorreia,

     

    This is weird. I tried on my machine and it works fine. Adding and Deleting columns in Stored Procedure are well detected by Power BI.

    Anyway, try below steps. It might help:

     

    1. Go to Query Editor, Open settings of the first step of the Power Query. Usually goes by name "Source" if you have not renamed.

    2. Turn On "Enable SQL Server Failover Support" and click OK. If it is alreadt Turned ON then Turn it OFF. 

    3. Now Refresh and Check. It should work.

     

    Prateek Raina

    • scorreia's avatar
      scorreia
      Regular Visitor
      8 years ago

      Hi Prateek,

      This is getting refreshed automatically. My bad as I was updating the Stored Proc in a Test Database and not in the one where Power BI was pointing to.

       

      Thanks.

       

      Regards

      Sophia

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      5 years ago

      Hi Prateek,

       

      I have a dashboard with 10 reports in Power BI, the data is coming from SQL strored Procedures through import mode. 

      The SQL Strored procedures will get updated with latest data when passing current date as input parameter to them, I want the same latest data in Power BI.The data in Power BI should always be the latest data like in the Stored Procedure could you please help on this.

      I tried incremental refresh but it stores data from last refresh which I dont want.

      I also tried calling function in Power BI but its always invoking a new table and my report is getting affected.

      Please help

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      4 years ago

      this is not working plz help