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Hi Everyone !
I have been trying to pivot the below data by wrt to Account_L2 and Values.
There are around 5 million such rows
But it is taking a hell lot of time and finally crashing my power BI.
The source is Dataflow.
Please help
| Month | Year | ZONE 1 | ZONE 2 | CLUSTER 1 | CLUSTER 2 | CLUSTER 3 | CLUSTER 4 | COUNTRY | FDT Cluster | NBM Countries | Franchise | Franchise#2 | Division#1 | Division#2 | PRODUCT FAMILY | PRODUCT | MAIN PRODUCT | EXT - SEGMENT | EXT - ASSET TYPE | EXT - PRODUCT FAMILY NEW | INT - SEGMENT | INT - ASSET TYPE | INT - PRODUCT FAMILY NEW | MARKET#1 | MARKET#2 | Other information #1 | Other information #2 | Account_L2 | INT - FDT SEGMENT | Rates | ATT_DIV | ATT_EnActivite | MC Code | Account Code | Product Code | Extracted Rates | Attribute | Value |
| Dec | 2021 | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GROSS MARGIN | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | GENERAL MEDICINES | 713000 | |
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Hi @Gopal2704 ,
Pivot/Unpivot are 'whole-table' operations i.e. Power Query must load the ENTIRE table into memory in order to perform the transformation.
For such large tables, you have a few options:
-1- Don't perform the pivot at all and see if it's possible to use the data in its native state e.g. by using matrix visuals etc.
-2- Perform the pivot operation at source e.g. write a view on the server that pivots the data before being brought in to Dataflow/Power Query.
-3- Use the original source (SQL Server etc.) as your query source (instead of a Dataflow) and utilise query folding to perform the operation at source.
-4- Break up/filter your table into much smaller pieces before performing the pivot/unpivot.
-5- Invest in RAM to go into your gateways/desktop/laptop, cranking them all up to 48GB-64GB+.
You may also find performance improvements by doing the pivot in DAX, although this will likely also be highly dependent on machine RAM availability as well.
Pete
Proud to be a Datanaut!
Hi @Gopal2704 ,
Pivot/Unpivot are 'whole-table' operations i.e. Power Query must load the ENTIRE table into memory in order to perform the transformation.
For such large tables, you have a few options:
-1- Don't perform the pivot at all and see if it's possible to use the data in its native state e.g. by using matrix visuals etc.
-2- Perform the pivot operation at source e.g. write a view on the server that pivots the data before being brought in to Dataflow/Power Query.
-3- Use the original source (SQL Server etc.) as your query source (instead of a Dataflow) and utilise query folding to perform the operation at source.
-4- Break up/filter your table into much smaller pieces before performing the pivot/unpivot.
-5- Invest in RAM to go into your gateways/desktop/laptop, cranking them all up to 48GB-64GB+.
You may also find performance improvements by doing the pivot in DAX, although this will likely also be highly dependent on machine RAM availability as well.
Pete
Proud to be a Datanaut!
Thank you for providing a detailed solution Pete !!
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