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alm5084
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9 years ago

Power BI Desktop Loads Data forever

I'm trying to import data into Power BI desktop from an analysis services data source on premise. We don't have a data gateway set up, so the data needs to be published with the reports. It takes FOR...
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alm5084
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9 years ago

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.

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v-caliao-msft
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9 years ago

alm5084,

 

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