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Anonymous
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PBI DataFlows Oracle partitions In-Memory mode

Hi PBI Team! Is there a way to see somehow partitions in PBI DataFlows(IM mode, Oracle data source)? Is it stored somewhere in azure blob or data lake?

I have read a few related articles here in Microsoft Power BI Community Forum and my understanding is: this is not archivabale task ->have opportunity to see partitions in pbi online DF UI and make changes manually)

Am I missing smth here? 

Is it right assumption?

Thank you in advance

 

 

 

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lbendlin
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There was once someone over at the Power Automate forums who reverse engineered the dataflow storage location. Pretty impressive but also rather pointless.  What are you trying to achieve?

Anonymous
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Hi @lbendlin 

I am trying to implement more advanced partitions and refresh scenarious through XMLA endpoint

1) how to see/manage partitions? SSMS only provides option to see tables inside dataset, ATM and Tabular Editor app are not considered safe to use for now

2) updating a few partitions instead of full refresh /for big dataset ~8G/ Large DataSet option is turn on. Also solution migraties to DataFlows. Is there a way to manage partitions inside DataFlows UI? I have not find it at current state

There is very little documentation on that, not much beyond

Using incremental refresh with dataflows - Power Query | Microsoft Learn

and

Understand and optimize dataflows refresh - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

 

I have yet to find documentation on how to bootstrap dataflow partitions.  In my business scenario I have had to abandon dataflows entirely and implement the partition management in datasets instead.

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