Historical Table

[adciudad]

Dear, is there any way to connect to a table, bring the data and then disconnect, leaving the data as well as it is available in the model to use and that table does not participate in synchronization?

The thing is that I have a historical table that will no longer have movements, so I don't want to keep the connection to the data source because it's not needed.

I need to import the data from that table into the power bi and that's it.

[v-diye-msft]

Hi @adciudad 

What's the datasource you'd like to disable the connection?

Did you try to import the data source and then clear the permission for the data source? 

Then you are not able to refresh the data neither keep live-conenction with it.

[adciudad]

It SQL server.

If I remove permissions it doesn't work, it asks me for access to the base, so that it's marked as not including in data refresh...

[adciudad]

Thank you for all the answers, I already did what you mention, but what I want is to be able to disconnect the data source, since as it is a history is not always available.

The idea is to import it once and don't bother you anymore...

[Anonymous]

As mentioned if you disable in report refresh then it won't bother the data anymore. 

depending on how much data you could also save the data as an excel document and then copy and paste it into your Ovid file using enter data. The down side is that only gives you 3000 data points. 

[adciudad]

Yes, I disabled it, but the data source remains configured, therefore it is validated when upgrading, I want to incorporate data one time into the model

[parry2k]

@adciudad you can right-click on the table in power query, and uncheck "Include in refresh"

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[amitchandak]

@adciudad , refer if this can help

https://windowsreport.com/disable-load-power-bi/

[BA_Pete · Accepted solution]

Hi @adciudad ,

In Power Query, right click on the query that you want to keep as-is and deselect "Include in report refresh". This should prevent the data in it being refreshed when you hit "Refresh" on the ribbon:

Note: I believe that you still need to maintain the connection to the data source though.

*EDIT* This may cause you some issues if you publish to the Power BI service as this does not prevent the Service from trying to refresh your dataset. I think the only sure-fire way to maintain a completely static dataset/table is to get your connected table how you want it in Power Query, then go to to the tiny table icon at the top-left of your data, select "Copy entire table", then go to Enter Data and paste. However, even this will only allow a maximum of 3,000 cells to be pasted. If you have more, best to paste this table out into an Excel file and connect back to it knowing it will never be changed.

Pete