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Dear all,
I have a report PBI with the data sources from SAP BW.
Issue: after publish to Power BI service, the auto refresh performance is not good. It takes around 40 minutes to refresh data.
Testing: I tried to apply incremental refresh to store data 1 year, refresh last 5 days data but it still takes around 40 minutes to refresh data in Power BI Service. However, if I run report (with incremental setup) in Power BI Desktop, it takes only 10 minutes.
Support need: Could you please share your experience with incremental for SAP BW data source? are there any solutions for this issue?
Thanks much for your support!
Wow ! How were you able to setup an incremental refresh on SAP BW data ? Could you please share as I have been trying to do it for a project too.
Hi,
I experienced the same behaviour from several months (at least since february-march 2020)
First refresh after publication: between 30 minutes to 110 minutes
Second and next refreshes : around 5 to 10 minutes
Compared to Power BI Desktop where it takes always less than 5 minutes
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