With incremental refresh policy, why does Power BI "SELECT TOP 1000" thousands of times?

I have a large dataset, and many of the tables have incremental refresh policies. The data source is Amazon Redshift, and I'm using the Amazon Redshift connector. I just modified the dataset, and...

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dfunk_ntr

New Member

5 years ago

Did anyone ever get a response on this from Microsoft? We are facing similar issues with SAP HANA as the backend database and dozens of "SELECT TOP 1000" queries hitting the database.

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