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ccueto36
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Slow refresh of SharePoint list data

Hi guys,

 

I have a table whose data source is a Sharepoint Online list, it's not a lot of data, barely 3MB. However, it takes minutes to load the data and it loads 3KB per second or so, which is ridiculous. There are no network problems. I have already attempted to use Table.Buffer preceding Source = Sharepoint.Tables(URL) but it doesn't change anything at all. As a side note, the returned table contains a Record column which I am expanding in the data model. Any ideas? Thank you in advance.

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Anonymous
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I had the same problem, the solution found by my team was to migrate the data to sql through microsoft flow.

Anonymous
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@ccueto36,

Do you mean that it takes minutes to load data to Power BI when you firstly import from sharepoint list, or it is slow when you refresh data/apply query change in Power BI Desktop?

If you mean the first time that you import data, please disable the following options in Power BI Desktop.

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However, if you refer to the refresh/apply query change time, please review the discussion in the similar thread below.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/Lync/en-US/37765819-f2b8-48f6-aaa9-3b9a8716a947/sharepoi...

Regards,
Lydia

What is the alternative to exapanding the columns? In the link you provided they mentioned using lookupvalues but how they achieved it? Was it DAX or m?

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