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emsrc
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5 years ago
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Incremental refresh and dimension table surrogate keys

Hello,  I need to know if the Power BI dataflow incremental refresh feature is able to help with this scenario.  I am building a star schema with a dimension table called Client.  The Client table gr...
  • GilbertQ's avatar
    5 years ago

    Hi emsrc 

     

    The Power BI Incremental refresh can only be used on a column with Date/Time format. What you could do is to have an insert date on your dimension table.

     

    Then use this Insert date to incrementally process the latest N days. And still use the surrogate key on your dimension to fact table relationships?