Solved: Asynchronous refresh

Anonymous · ‎10-19-2022

Hi all , I am new to PowerBI, I would like to confirm which situation I should consider use the premium features Asynchronous refresh and Backup and restore.

Please kindly provide me some examples and when/ why need to use them. Thanks a lot!

lbendlin · ‎10-20-2022

Asynchronous refresh: You have large datasets (there's a 10 GB partition limit) and/or you don't need to refresh all partitions all the time.

Backup and Restore: You are concerned abot losing datasets and/or are unable to recreate them from scratch (which is always a red flag). So you make your own backups of stuff that Microsoft is already backing up in the Azure cloud.

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lbendlin · ‎10-20-2022

Asynchronous refresh: You have large datasets (there's a 10 GB partition limit) and/or you don't need to refresh all partitions all the time.

Backup and Restore: You are concerned abot losing datasets and/or are unable to recreate them from scratch (which is always a red flag). So you make your own backups of stuff that Microsoft is already backing up in the Azure cloud.