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What is power BI dataset size limit in incremental refresh in Power BI Pro & Premium license.

What is power BI dataset size limit in incremental refresh in Power BI Pro & Premium license. If my dataset increased beyond dataset limitation(From microsoft document it shows 12 GB), What is workaround to see the historical data in Power BI?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-premium-what-is

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Greg_Deckler
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@Anonymous - Pro has a dataset upload limit of 1GB, Premium has a dataset upload limit of 10GB. Once uploaded, a datset can be refreshed up to a size of 12GB

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Power-BI-limitations-for-dataset/td-p/533275

 

Once you hit 12GB, use DirectQuery instead of Import.

 



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