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Reduce loading wtih a huge dataflow
I'm building a report that use a big dataflow table (185 000 000 lines) in importer mode Out of these 185 000 000 lines (roughly 20 Go) I'm using only around 2 000 000 once filtered I'm looki...
Thank you PavanLalwani
Hi, Arkhos94
If you use a database to store data, you can limit the amount of import when connecting by:
This method still works with DataFlow.
If you use some static files such as Excel, csv:
This step mainly uses Table.FirstN. Excel doesn't have a query engine, so it defaults to all workbook rows when importing.
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