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

Anonymous

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5 years ago

I am experiencing the same issue here. This is my first time attempting to use dataflows, so I thought I must be doing something wrong.

I basically have a large set (over 10 million rows) of data that remains static and does not need refreshed. Dataflows seemed like the ideal solution.

I am connecting to our enterprise data warehouse through an oracle SQL query. The query is rather complex, but there are no transformation steps after the source query. The query works in Power BI Desktop just fine, but times out in the dataflow.

This is beyond frustrating.

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