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Shabb
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Power Query filtering not working

Hi All,

 

I am having trouble with Power BI, Filtering data in Power Query is still loading all data into model, I tried filtering on a single row and filtering using parameter/s both resulted in the same result which is : Power Bi is loading all data no matter the filter .

* On the right- NotePad is countdistinct of rows (in Power query after filtering that need to be loaded) And on the left Power BI loading 79K rows !

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How is this possible ? is it a bug ? I remember one time the filter did work and it loaded only filtered data, but now it isn't

 

anyone having this issue ?

 

Thanks in advance 

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Shabb
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@amitchandak Hi, 

 

The database says the same number of rows as the power query. still Power Bi is loading the whole table .

Am I mising something ? By the way this doesn't happen when filter Top 30 rows for example - in this case normally Power BI loads only those rows to the model .

 

I also tried filtering to 1 Row in power query and still power bi is bringing the whole table .

what do you mean by Data view ? you mean in Power BI yes? It will take forever until I can access that tab ...

I am waiting for power Bi to load the whole 75K row table.. it's showing "loading 2,500 Rows from fact..." 

 

@Shabb , a good way to check is to check the query folding - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/power-query-folding#determine-when-a-query-can-be-folde...

 

if query folded property, it should not load data to power bi

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@amitchandak ,

 

I am running on Oracle database ,sorry I don't understand why query folding is a problem in my case .

amitchandak
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@Shabb , Do not check this count. Go to data view and check rows in table.

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