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We work with people using Premium and Pro and are trying to put together some governance on where to use dataflows
from what I can see, if you are doing a lot of heavy lifting in Power Query editor which needs In lake Compute then Pro wont allow you to do this. Its Premium only
Also you can't do incremental refresh and they are much slower to refresh because they arent in Premium Gen2
Are there any other reasons I can come up with for not running with dataflows if you only have Pro licenses?
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Hi @DebbieE ,
There are limitations for Dataflows in shared capacities:
The following features are available only with Power BI Premium:
For more information, please refer to:
Dataflows considerations and limitations
If the problem is still not resolved, please provide detailed error information or the expected result you expect. Let me know immediately, looking forward to your reply.
Best Regards,
Winniz
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Hello, can I ask you a question about this topic?
Is it possible to make a dataflow in a Premium workspace with PPU user and have those benefits that you comment?
and is it possible to then consume that data from the tables from another Pro workspace so that Pro users can consume the information of the armed reports?
My intention is to have a single query to the SQL databases we have and leave the tables in the service and then use them in different datasets.
Thank you
Sebastian
Hi @DebbieE ,
Has your problem been solved? If it is solved, please mark a reply which is helpful to you.
If the problem is still not resolved, please provide detailed error information or the expected result you expect. Let me know immediately, looking forward to your reply.
Best Regards,
Winniz
Any more of these would be really useful?
Hi @DebbieE ,
There are limitations for Dataflows in shared capacities:
The following features are available only with Power BI Premium:
For more information, please refer to:
Dataflows considerations and limitations
If the problem is still not resolved, please provide detailed error information or the expected result you expect. Let me know immediately, looking forward to your reply.
Best Regards,
Winniz
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
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