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Anonymous
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Power Query very long loading time

Hi guys,

 

i have a SQL query i added in Power Query. Now i am adding additional custom columns to transfor some columns coming from the query. But often times when i create additional columns Power Query takes long time to apply changes. These are also often simple transformation e.g. transform a date to only the year of the date. 

 

Now my question is: Is Power Query querying the database everytime i create a custom column that refers to a column from the query? In general when does Power Query query the databases? 

 

I assume that because in the lower right corner i see this notice: "Waiting for host:" and then the name of the database. So it looks like Power Query always queries the database. 

 

This is super annoying. How can i work around this?

 

 

Thx guys

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v-juanli-msft
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Hi @Anonymous 

You could check the following to improve performance of power query.

Speeding up power query

Table.Buffer for cashing intermediate query results or how workaround Unnecessary Queries Issue

 

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Maggie
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