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Partial Dataset Refresh

Hi Everyone!

 

I´m using a R-Script for the import of my dataset.

I would like to know if there is some kind of partial refresh due to it takes a lot of time for the full charge of data model.

Is this possible or I have to create a historical table in some way and limit the refresh by my own?

 

Thanks!

 

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MattAllington
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Yes, sort of a hack - a bit better than that. Imke blogged about it here 

http://www.thebiccountant.com/2016/11/15/incremental-load-powerbi/



* Matt is an 8 times Microsoft MVP (Power BI) and author of the Power BI Book Supercharge Power BI.
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MattAllington
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Yes, sort of a hack - a bit better than that. Imke blogged about it here 

http://www.thebiccountant.com/2016/11/15/incremental-load-powerbi/



* Matt is an 8 times Microsoft MVP (Power BI) and author of the Power BI Book Supercharge Power BI.
I will not give you bad advice, even if you unknowingly ask for it.

After working through this to understand it I figured out its fine, as long as you don't delete any records from your incremental data.  If you do, they will not be deleted in the model.  This is because the previous version of the data, containing the deleted records, is recycled every update, with the incremental data being added with duplicates filtered out.

Anonymous
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Great!

It's a solution very similar to what I had thought.

 

 

Thanks for the information @MattAllington.

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