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Hi
What can I do to prevent timeouts when I refresh in Power BI Desktop (See picture below). It happens after 40-50 min.
The data source is an Azure SQL Database.
@Anonymous , As per these topics you have increase refresh timeout and try
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Power-BI-Service-Refresh-Issue-Azure-SQL-Server/td-p/722114
hi @amitchandak
It should have said "Azure table storage"
Because it seems easy to increase the timeout time with sql, but not with the table storage databases.
@Anonymous do you get the preview of this table in power query?
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Yes i do and sometimes i can refresh, but other times i get the error message.
@Anonymous that's why I didn't suggest to check the timeout option because I saw you are using Azure Table. I believe it has something to do with your internal connectivity and latency. The Azure data center is in the same region where you are trying to access these tables, maybe it is a latency issue.
Overall it looks like a network problem than anything else.
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So there is no solution to my problem?
Hi @Anonymous ,
Check whether below would help:
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Refreshing-data-in-Desktop-timing-out/td-p/130186
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