PowerQuery - Validating queries when saving is taking excessively long time

I'm struggling to be able to work efficiently with Dataflows as I am experiencing excessive times to 'validate' queries after pressing the 'Save & Close' button. For entities with even a minimal amou...

Data Modeling

michaelshparber

Advocate V

6 years ago

Same here.

I have several API queries and it takes forever just to save the dataflow....

I don't mind it takes an hour to refresh.

But saving should be fast.

I have opened an idea to skip validation when saving, please vote:

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/40604332-skip-validating-queries-when-saving-a-dataflow

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