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Datahungry
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7 years ago

Refreshing report using Mixed Mode (Import Mode, Direct Query and Dual Mode) and Aggregations

Hello all,   I created a report that has these Tables: - "Sales" (all Sales detail by Date) - using Direct Query Mode, - "Sales Agg" (Same as "Sales" but aggregated by Year and Month) - using Imp...
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v-frfei-msft
Community Support
7 years ago

Hi Datahungry,

 

You can disable the query-option to try again. But warning: This is a global setting, so it will applied to other queries as well.

 

 

Regards,

Frank

  • Datahungry's avatar
    Datahungry
    Frequent Visitor
    7 years ago

    Hi Frank,

    Thanks for the reply. I tried what you suggested but nothing changed. I still get the error message:

     

    The query result is too large. Consider removing unused columns, adding visual filters, or reducing the number of string type columns.

     

    Is this a bug? Anyone else experiencing the same problem?

     

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      6 years ago

      Yes, exactly the same problem

       

      Something went wrong

      The query result is too large. Consider removing unused columns,
      adding visual filters, or reducing the number of string type columns.

       

      What I did, removed all the unused columns, reduced the data size to almost  nothing and still the same problem.

      When I click on refresh on the online Power BI, I get the yellow triangle with the above message.

      Now the data volume is almost nothing, so somethings else is going on here.

       

      Eric

       

       

       

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        6 years ago

        Found the solution to my query result is too large error.

         

        What did not work :
        Reduced the data to almost nothing.
        Removed all the pages except one.
        Removed all the visualization except one.

         

        What did WORK :
        Removed a table (lucky first one I tried) and that worked.
        Without this table, I can press refresh on Power BI Online
        and it works.

         

        Without this table Power BI Online successfully refreshed.
        So, I confirmed this was the table giving me the error.

         

        But I need this table, so I removed all the measures etc
        so that I only have the native columns from the table.

         

        Still had problems, so I restarted and kept only the measures
        and columns that I need. Turns out in the columns that I
        did comment out was one of the columns that was causing the
        refresh error.

         

        Then I keep only the columns that I need and comment out
        all the rest. Well, that solved my problem.


        Sounds easy but this took a day and a half to figure this out.

        I can now press refresh on Power BI online with no errors 🙂

         

        Also, quick tip, when you get data, use the Advanced options
        section and the SQL statement (optional, requires database)
        box to enter your select.

         

        When you have 50 columns etc
        use only the columns you need and comment out the rest.

         

        select
        col1
        , col2
        --, col3
        --, col4
        , col5
        from table

         

        Hope this helps someone with this issue.

         

        Eric (Montreal, Canada)

         

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    6 years ago

    Hi v-frfei-msft 

    I'm experiencing the same problem when I trigger a refresh in the PBI service (either scheduled or manual). Disabling the query-option didn't help either. It works fine when I manually refresh the model in PBI desktop in my local. 

     

    Actually I can't even see which table in my model causing the trouble. Maybe you are able to see it with the below log?

    Thanks,

    Cem

     

    Last refresh failed: Thu Dec 05 2019 18:15:56 GMT+0100 (Central European Standard Time)
    The query result is too large. Consider removing unused columns, adding visual filters, or reducing the number of string type columns.

    Cluster URI:WABI-EUROPE-NORTH-B-redirect.analysis.windows.net
    Activity ID:2f87361a-6400-4634-90e1-c22e58578ca6
    Request ID:f8a68b1d-0032-6001-6b4c-878e93b2c9f4
    Time:2019-12-05 17:15:56Z