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Anonymous
4 years agoNot applicable
datasource change taking forever
I have a power bi report that has oracle as source, i just changed the connection from production to a test environment schema, in data source settings, then hit apply changes, i see the attached mes...
- 4 years ago
When you changed the connection Power BI panicked and threw away all the meta data it had accumulated for the prior setup. Now it is starting over and collecting all the meta data anew. I really wish they would find a better way to do this.
Anonymous
4 years agoNot applicable
Is there a place that I can see this information ?
lbendlin
4 years agoSuper User
Check the Power Query Value.* functions like
Value.Metadata - PowerQuery M | Microsoft Docs
Value.Is - PowerQuery M | Microsoft Docs
Value.Type - PowerQuery M | Microsoft Docs
Also, Ben Gribaudo has an excellent series of articles about the darker corners of Power Query, including Metadata.