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Power BI Desktop Loads Data forever
I am using the most recent version of the desktop app. I have a 64 bit machine with 8G of RAM and the appropriate version of Power BI desktop installed. Even with the gateway setup, I'll still have to set up the dataset and report in the desktop app before deploying it to the PowerBI server.
If dataset is large and you've used import you may have performance issue plus longer times for data refresh. DirectQuery would take away the need of data refresh but that means there maybe bit of delay in getting data for visuals as queries would be sent to on-premise data source. For example when you apply a filter queries would be sent to on-premise data source.
In your scenario, Please try to use DirectQuery mode to get data in your Power BI report and check if this issue persists or not.
Regards,
Charlie Liao
I don't think there will be a huge performance difference between Power BI and Power Pivot. If it working with Power Pivot in 5 mins, will work with Power BI as well.
We will see performance issue in a case of huge data, to avoid this. Use direct query and have gateway in place, which might solve your problem
Unfortunately, the data gateway will not be deployed for probably another year at my organization and it is out of my control. But I need to be able to create reports in the meantime. It just seems that Power BI is interacting with the cube differently than Power Pivot does and I want to figure out if it is by design or I have some setting wrong on my Power BI setup.
Oh! And I need to add that if I connect directly to the fact table as a SQL Server type of connection, the same exact query runs in a few minutes. At first that sounds like an issue with the cube itself, but interacting with it in Power Pivot as a cube works fine, which makes me think it's the way Power BI is interacting with it.
