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opticshrew
Resolver II
7 years ago
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Power BI isn't importing data from SQL data source

Hi Folks,   I'm querying a SQL database using the import type connection. I've added several tables with millions of rows per table. I can refresh some tables with no issue however other tables see...
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    opticshrew
    7 years ago

    Hi Greg_Deckler

     

    So before you read on, I'm no SQL expert to bear with my answer :)

     

    When you refresh the Power BI report a job is run on the SQL database. This job "forwards" your query to the correct table. It looked as though the table being queried had an issue when generating IDs. Our SQL expert made a change on the database table that fixed all of our issues.

     

    In other words, Power BI worked as expected but it was an issue on the datasource.

     

    Hopefully that helps,

    Jay

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opticshrew
Resolver II
7 years ago

Hi Greg_Deckler

 

So before you read on, I'm no SQL expert to bear with my answer :)

 

When you refresh the Power BI report a job is run on the SQL database. This job "forwards" your query to the correct table. It looked as though the table being queried had an issue when generating IDs. Our SQL expert made a change on the database table that fixed all of our issues.

 

In other words, Power BI worked as expected but it was an issue on the datasource.

 

Hopefully that helps,

Jay

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Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
7 years ago

DBA's = useful!