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Power BI Dataflow - response too large to return
Can't use direct connection to BQ for access reasonsChallenge that assumption. Tell them that 650 GB is too much.
If they don't budge, use Incremental Refresh. Start VERY small, with a day or so. See how many rows you get. Recommended partition size is around 8 to 20 million rows.
Please explain "import does not work" - are you getting an error message?
Direct Query on a dataflow = datamart = lipstick on a pig (Azure SQL db being the lipstick and the dataflow being the pig). Possible, sure, but a travesty nevertheless.
You can consider switching the incremental refresh to the dataset instead and to completely remove the dataflow from the equation.
You can consider dataflow Gen2 and store the results as Delta Lake in Fabric.
Use the biggest partition size you can get away with. Your choices are Day,Month,Quarter and Year.
I would start with Day and check how many rows you get per partition. If not too many you can switch to Month.
Please help me understand this step. My aim was to get data for the past 90 days - so period being = 9 April to 9 July or so. The current dataflow has data for last 30 days meaning - 9 June to 9 july.
What am i supposed to be inputting on the incremental refresh because the refresh rows days can't be higher than the store rows days.
And if i am successful to even bring all the past 90 days somwhow, i still have to figure out a way to keep that as a rolling 90 day.
Thanks and i appreciate all your help.
Set it to refresh 1 day and store 10 days. Then evaluate the refresh log to see how many rows are in each partition. If there are substantially fewer than 8M rows per day then you can change your settings to 1 day and 3 months.
You will get the rolling 90 days automatically (plus some extra days to complete the months, as the actual month partitions will include not three but four months). You could change your setting to 1 day and 90 days but that would mean you would have 90 partitions. Only do that if necessary.
Okay, i just ran the refresh for store 1 day and refresh last 3 months. Also just from the dataset info on BQ there's an avg of about 4M rows per day.
So this should potentially have all the data for the past 90 days and more at the moment. Am just waiting for it to finish the run.Once this is successful, i'll have to change the refresh schedule to be store x months and refresh 1 day, that way i get the latest day's data added, right?
Only concern here - the new data keeps on getting added with daily refresh but there is historic data present which as days pass will be much much more than 90 days. Will i run into storage/processing issues at that point?
Is there a way of automatic data pruning to get rid of historic data past 90 days?Thanks!
Will i run into storage/processing issues at that point? Is there a way of automatic data pruning to get rid of historic data past 90 days?keep "x" at 3 and the Power BI service will do the pruning for you automatically.