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FXFelix
Resolver I
7 years ago

Incremental Refresh misunderstanding ?

Hi,   Please apologize for my newbie question, but I think there is something I misunderstand in the functionality "Incremental refresh".   I thought the aim of incremental refresh was to store f...
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FXFelix
Resolver I
5 years ago

Thanks for your answer and your time collinq 🙂

 

You're right, I can do this, and it will surely work. I will have the full period of data I want, but as soon as soon I will set up the incremental refresh, it won't be the case...

 

You see what I mean ?

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collinq
Super User
5 years ago

Hi FXFelix ,

 

I do understand what you are saying but I would respectfully submit that you have not configured something quite the way it is designed.  The point of incremental refresh is to ADD (or modify perhaps) rows and not to OVERWRITE with only the latest stuff.  I know that you have seen the Microsoft article on this but perhaps this entry by Chris Webb would be helpful for you:  Chris Webb's BI Blog: Keep The Existing Data In Your Power BI Dataset And Add New Data To It Using Incremental Refresh Chris Webb's BI Blog (crossjoin.co.uk)

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    FXFelix
    Resolver I
    5 years ago

    Thanks collinq for your help, I will try again 🙂