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Hi,
What would be the reason that I see 2 concurent queries (same) running on my datasource when I'm refreshing only one query in pbix?
What's your data source?
As I tested with SQL and SSAS data source, I see the underlying T-SQL query/MDX is only executed one time, but it will also execute other queries agains system tables and DMVs.
SQL data source:
SSAS:
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