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Dataflow size limit
Thank you. That confirms my thinking.
Does the refresh of the PBIX model force a refresh of the associated dataflows or will they refresh independently based on their individual refresh frequencies?
The only way that they could be refreshed is if you use Power Premium and Linked Entities
- As long as you don't append the "partitions" until you ingest the data into a model, you're golden.
I've successfully broken my large model out into a number of Dataflows and they are all refreshing on their own schedules :-) I am facing a new challenge in that any Dataflow that is over about 300MB will refresh in Dataflows and display in Power BI Desktop Query Editor but fail to load when I apply the query in Power BI Desktop. The error is:
Failed to save modifications to the server. Error returned: 'OLE DB or ODBC error: [DataSource.Error] Received an unexpected EOF or 0 bytes from the transport stream..'.
When applying it will happily load the data to a point - normally to the full size as it pauses for a long time at the same value and then crashes with the error. I'm going to break the larger items out into smaller Dataflows and then combine them as a new Table in Power BI Desktop. That should reduce the sizes being transferred over the wire.
- I have larger tables so you might want to put in a support ticket.
Hi,
can you please explain the reason behind the suggestion not to append the results of the different dataflows / partitions?
KR Alex
