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Drunken_Sailor
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2 years ago

Data flow refresh order

Hello, In a workspace, I have serval dataflows When dataflow 1 is refrershed, it also refreshes the next dataflow (2).  And when Dataflow 2 starts it starts dataflows 3a, 3b, and 3c. I assumed th...
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2 years ago

Hi Drunken_Sailor 

 

You can refer to the following official documentation for a description of the refresh order:

Understand and optimize dataflows refresh - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

After you delete the dataflow, if your dataflow contains many queries or some queries depend on others. If you cancel a refresh before you start evaluating a query that loads data into a target, no changes will occur to the data in the target of that query. There are a few instrumentation tools you can use to further observe the refresh order of your dataflow:
powerquery-docs/powerquery-docs/dataflows/monitor-dataflow-refreshes.md at main · MicrosoftDocs/powerquery-docs · GitHub

 

Best Regards

Zhengdong Xu
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    Drunken_Sailor
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    2 years ago

    I read that too, which is what led me to orgnaizing the dataflows in such a way.  They used the term "chaining" which led me to believe it was sequential... but it isnt.