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kasiaw29
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4 years ago
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Incremental Refresh - Keep yesterday's data and refresh today's.

Hi all,    I'm setting up incremental refresh for the first time with one of my reports. I'm most likely doing something silly but the main goal here is to load the data in and only refresh the nex...
  • lbendlin's avatar
    4 years ago
    Data in the table changes every day

     

    That means your data is unsuitable for incremental refresh.  Incremental refresh expects immutable data that can be added on to, but never needs to be updated.

     

    You are looking for differential refresh. That is not something Power BI can do.

     

    Your best bet is to extend the refresh window to refresh not the last day but the last 14 days (for example) to catch most changes, and to run occasional full refreshes to cover cases when older data has changed.

     

    Note that you can also manually or programmatically refresh individual partitions.

     

    Note that you have selected "Only refresh complete days" which is most likely not what you want.