My Power Bi refreshing with SharePoint is extremely slow

[Anonymous]

I have my Power Bi linked to my SharePoint to refresh with live data but unfortunately it's around 26MB to refresh and it takes 35 minutes. Surely there has to be a way to cut down the refresh time. All solutions are welcome. Thanks

[Anonymous]

@Anonymous,

Do you refresh the data in Power BI Desktop or in Power BI Service? If you refresh data in Power BI Desktop, please disable the following options, and we also need to know what changes you make on the data in Power BI Desktop.

If you encounter the issue in Power BI Service, please firstly check that how long it takes to refresh in Power BI Desktop.

Regards,
Lydia

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am in Power Bi Desktop. I had Time Intelligence and Background Data both checked and they are now unchecked which has made it faster but still in  the 10-15 min range.

In order to get certain fields in the form I needed I removed other columns, expanded fieldvaluesasText and renamed and removed a lot of columns after that.  Overall is it possible to speed it up to 1-3 minutes ?

Thanks for the help

[Anonymous]

@Anonymous,

Expand operation is going to cause additional requests to be sent to SharePoint, which is going to slow down the refresh. In your scenario, cache the results of SharePoint using the Table.Buffer function as described in this similar thread and check if the refresh is faster.

Regards,

[CahabaData]

Would it speed it up if the SharePoint dataset link was into Table 1 in PBI Desktop complete unaltered and 'as is'......  and then create a calculated Table 2 within PBI Desktop?

I'm not sure of the architecture inside the PBI as to whether this approach would segregate the download task (to/from SharePoint) from the transform task (entirely within PBI Desktop).....