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asparagus1_
Helper I
5 months ago
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Aml toolkit - schema changes - retain partitons

Hi, I have a question about incremental refresh in Power BI. I’m changing the data source for a table with incremental refresh enabled. Previously it was a view, now it’s now a table (same object, b...
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  • Natarajan_M's avatar
    Natarajan_M
    5 months ago

    Hi asparagus1_ , 

    ALM Toolkit with Retain Partitions: Partitions will be structurally preserved during deployment, but the column name changes mean the next refresh will fail — the existing partition queries still reference the old column names and won't auto-remap.

    Even with Tabular Editor, you can't make changes without affecting the existing partitions.

    Thanks 


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Natarajan_M
Super User
5 months ago

Hi asparagus1_ , 

ALM Toolkit with Retain Partitions: Partitions will be structurally preserved during deployment, but the column name changes mean the next refresh will fail — the existing partition queries still reference the old column names and won't auto-remap.

Even with Tabular Editor, you can't make changes without affecting the existing partitions.

Thanks 


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asparagus1_
Helper I
5 months ago

Thank you. So what is recommended in this case? Should I disable this option and reload all partitions? Will that work properly?