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TOK's avatar
TOK
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3 years ago

Large Datasets in PowerBI Report Server

Hi, i have a simple and structured, but large sales dataset I want to use for time series analysis in PowerBI. Right now I am not capable of loading it as the dataset would be too large for savin...
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d_gosbell
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3 years ago

2Gb is the max file size for a pbix file on Report Server. To host larger datasets on-prem the best solution is to install SQL Server Analysis Services in Tabular mode and deploy your models there. This has the added advantage that you can setup multiple partitions and do incremental refresh and you can then link multiple reports back to that single model in live connect mode.