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Anonymous
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Refresh doesn't work

Hi,

 

since yesterday when i refresh pbi desktop file. it never fininshed ..? 

i am seeing this message for 20 mins now. normally it takes less 1 mins.

do you have any clue?

Refresh forever.PNG

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parry2k
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@Anonymous is your data source available? Maybe there is a lag to pull the data? What is your source?

 

 

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Anonymous
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The source is Excel file and its pretty small size one..!

i don't understand what the problem is....

 

@Anonymous that's surely weird, can you check in query editor if you can preview the file.



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Anonymous
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okie i've got a new error message. it said i have too many columns and checked my query it created a lot columns.. i don't know why this happend? cos my origianl excel file is exactly same.. 

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Hi @Anonymous 

The maximum number of columns for every table is 16000 according to the documents.

Please delete some unnecessary columns before import or refresh.

 

Best Regards

Maggie

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