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hjaf
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6 years ago
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SharePoint list query alternative or optimization

Hello everyone!   Because sharepoint list queries quickly comes too slow to work with in Power BI, I have experimented with the query that sharepoint generates for excel. This is vastly more effect...
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    mahoneypat
    5 years ago

    hjaf FYI that I finally made a video to describe this approach, and am adding it here for others that may find this post.  It also gets the count of items and makes the right number of API calls.

    Get SharePoint List Data with Power BI ... Fast - YouTube

     

    Also, a reminder to mark one of these as the solution.

     

    Regards,

    Pat

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jaleman
Frequent Visitor
5 years ago

Thank you, your video helped me. After I moved to version 2 everything was faster.

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CmdrKeene
Helper IV
5 years ago

If you think version 2 is fast, wait until you try the "good" method using the REST API.  I have a list with more than 150,000 items, and it refreshes in about 8 seconds.