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Manoj_Raj_S
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Issue with large XML files

Hi all,

 

I have loaded 2 xml files of size 500 mb each into my powerbi desktop, which creates 2 fact tables and no dimension tables yet. Loading the xml files not takes much time but post loading, each time i open the query editior and even do a small tranformation for one of the table and try to load back to powerbi, it is taking me approximately 2 hrs. Why is it taking so long time? Is there anything that i could do to fix the processing time?
Please share your suggestions.

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Manoj_Raj_S
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Thanks,  even splitting the huge xml file into 4 different files and then loading, appending data and performing transformation worked as well.

lbendlin
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Super User

Every time you mess with the meta data you get penalized with the "Evaluating..."  mocking prompt.

 

Don't do any transformations. Or flatten the XMLs into a dataflow once and then do the transform downstream.

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