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MacJasem
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what is the best way to version comparing of datasets?

Hi all

 

Hope some one has a great simple way of comparing two different versions of datasets for differences between the new and old version. 

 

Reason why is that i have a new version that keeps erroring whenever i refresh in the service, but does not fail to refresh in desktop, and i wish to compare what changes i've made since the last working version and the to find the change that broke the dataset/datamodel. Does that make sense? :-DI've tried to look in to PBI explorer but i encounter issues with the program, and i'm not quite familiar with tabular editor if that is used for such issues.

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Igna
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Hello,

 

I personnaly use Notepad++ with the Compare plugins. Be sure to do a proper extract of the data and to sort it the same way of both extracts.

 

Hope it helps

 

Igna

Thanks @Igna 

Have you tried PowerBI Explorer? 

 

I just found it, and as i understood it's a newly released tool, but i can't figure out how to use it or there might be something wrong with my install. 

Your way of doing it is great with NotePad++, but i'd like to hear if there's any distinct tools for that that might be helpful finding parts of a dataset that has been added since last version. 

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