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current_thing
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3 years ago

Prevent PowerBI from refreshing an imported table

I have a PowerBI file that has two imported files:  table1.csv (approx 18m rows) table2.csv (approx 7m rows)   I then have another table, table3, where I combine the two tables: =table.combine({...
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bcdobbs
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3 years ago

You could set a separate dataflow up for each table so you can control refresh separatly. If you have premium or premium per user a third data flow could combine the two which power bi could read. Otherwise just do the table combine inside your dataset.

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Anonymous
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3 years ago

AHH yes, that's what I was thinking in the first option. Disabling the report refresh 🙂