Skip to main content
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Enhance your career with this limited time 50% discount on Fabric and Power BI exams. Ends August 31st. Request your voucher.

Reply
Anonymous
Not applicable

Scheduled Refresh of report timing out error

We have a Power BI Desktop (Optimised for Report Server File) report built and have uploaded it to our Power BI Report Server. The report talks to our Oracle SQL Database. If I refresh the report directly from the desktop file, the report will update and bring in any changes.

I've attempted to try schedule this refresh on the report server however get the following error:

"Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation. The exception was raised by the IDbCommand interface"

My confusion is that when testing the Data Sources, our Oracle connection with our authentication when clicked 'Test Connection' brings back 'Connected Successfully'. The only other observation is under 'Scheduled Refresh', the 'Status' stays stuck at "Started Data Refresh" and doesn't change regardless of the page being refreshed.

Does anyone have any ideas? Confusing me as the report refreshes locally and connection should work but the scheduled refresh fails





1 REPLY 1
cnschulz
Helper IV
Helper IV

 The lack of support on topics like this is astounding. I get much better support from reddit than i do here. The report refresh timeout settings do not seem to actually do anything.

Helpful resources

Announcements
August Power BI Update Carousel

Power BI Monthly Update - August 2025

Check out the August 2025 Power BI update to learn about new features.

August 2025 community update carousel

Fabric Community Update - August 2025

Find out what's new and trending in the Fabric community.