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Kevin_Conseil
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Incremental refresh when refreshing desktop manually

Hi Everyone,

 

Does the incremental refresh is happening when refreshing manually (clicking on the "Refresh" button) a power bi dataset on power bi desktop?

 

Best,

Kevin

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edhans
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No. The partitioning happens in the service so when you refresh, it goes through all of the data locally.



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edhans
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No. The partitioning happens in the service so when you refresh, it goes through all of the data locally.



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