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Anonymous
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8 years ago
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Scheduled Refresh limits

Hello.

 

The scheduled refresh limit is 8 refreshs/day.

 

Is there a problem if i refresh manually more than 8 times per day? I set a little click macro to refresh every 30 minutes..

 

I can't pay the price for premium just for refreshing more than 8 times per day, it's too much. I don't need the extra capacity, i'm a sole PowerBI user.

 

 

 

 

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Anonymous,

    You can manually refresh more than 8 times a day. Power BI puts a limit on refresh schedule because you are using the share capacity with other people. 

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    8 years ago

    Anonymous,

    You can manually refresh more than 8 times a day. Power BI puts a limit on refresh schedule because you are using the share capacity with other people. 

    • tlanza's avatar
      tlanza
      Advocate I
      7 years ago

      Does that mean 8 refreshes per day per user? Or is it per dataset per day? For example, I have a shipping schedule that I want to refresh every hour starting at 8am everyday (8 refreshes total). What if, I have another report for Invoices that I want to run every 2 hours (4 refreshes total). Does this go over the scheduled refresh limit for a Pro user? 

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        7 years ago
        Hello,

        It's per dataset
  • TomMartens's avatar
    TomMartens
    Super User
    6 years ago

    Hey,

     

    I just stumbled over this thread.

     

    Please read this carefully:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/refresh-data#data-refresh

    It is also important to call out that the daily refresh limitation applies to both, scheduled and on-demand refreshes combined.

    This means it's that simple, you have to stick to

    • 8times a day if you are on Power BI Pro
    • 48times a day if you are on Power BI Premium

    Regards,

    Tom

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      6 years ago

      HiTomMartens ,

       

      This detail was due to an errata in the page you have referred to and has been cleaned up.

       

      To qualify the extract now reads:

       

      It is also important to call out that the shared-capacity limitation for daily refreshes applies to both scheduled refreshes and API refreshes combined. You can also trigger an on-demand refresh by selecting Refresh Now in the dataset menu, as the following screenshot depicts. On-demand refreshes are not included in the refresh limitation.

       

      The errata is referenced here: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/powerbi-docs/issues/1604

       

      Hope tjis helps clear things up.

       

      Kind regards,

      Andrew

    • MjoGehri's avatar
      MjoGehri
      Frequent Visitor
      4 years ago

      Hi Tom, 

      I just upgraded to Premium per Use, but my scheduled refresh are still 8 per day, should i do something to get the 48?

  • MjoGehri's avatar
    MjoGehri
    Frequent Visitor
    4 years ago

    Hi, 

    I just upgraded to Premium per Use, but my scheduled refresh are still 8 per day, should i do something to get the 48?

    • TomMartens's avatar
      TomMartens
      Super User
      4 years ago

      Hey MjoGehri ,

       

      you also have to assign the workspace to a PPU capacity.
      Be aware, that as soon as the workspace is assigned to a PPU capacity only user that have a PPU license assigned will be able to access the content of that workspace.

      Tom