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stanbeamish
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4 years ago
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Azure Data Explorer Database to Power BI Embedded with Incremental Refresh

Hi Community,   I'm not exactly a PowerBI expert (not at all). In this respect, I would like to have an assessment whether the architecture makes sense and possibly this architecture is responsible...
  • ibarrau's avatar
    4 years ago

    Hi. I'm not sure if incremental refresh works with Azure Data Explorer Database. However the issue here is that you can't make a full refresh. You need at least one full refresh to make incremental work. That's the thing with incremental, it won't fix any limitation about size because the first refresh after publishing will always be full. It will only make it faster once it's working. 

    You can try turning on the large datasets option for it. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/enterprise/service-premium-large-models

    If non of that work, you need to consider getting a deep dive to the model, analyze vertipaq and check if you can reduce its size. Otherwise you will need to reduce data from big tables or make PowerBi Aggregations if the source can read direct query.

    I hope that helps,