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Hello folks!
First time poster but long time visitor of the forums.
Recently I migrated one of my larger data models (about 16 entities from roughly 6 source files) into a data flow so it can be used with multiple datasets. However; my refresh times have since sky rocketed. When working with the dataset in desktop, I got a refresh time of roughly 30 seconds; versus now, which takes about 15 minutes to refresh. I took a look at the refresh log, and there isn't one entity holding the whole thing up, its just the bigger entities take 2-3 minutes, and the smaller ones take 1 or less.
Some details:
- All queries are coming from a "web source" sharepoint folder, both now and before
- The largest chunk of data is only 25k rows
- Some entities are coming from other entities (query in a table of data, and then multiple different queries use that query as their source)
- There are a lot of expansion transformations (splitting rows, not just columns)
From what I've read, data flows are supposedly faster than power query in desktop, so I was wondering if anyone else has had some trouble or advice.
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