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vpshamsbi
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Power BI Dataflow size limitation - Power BI Pro

Dear,

 

I am facing an issue to create a dataflow, which sources the data from an Oracle view (multiple complex joins from 4 tables). It has got more than 5 milloion records and almost 10 columns. While creating dataflow, preview page itslef it throws error "Evaluation error, something went wrong". When I limit the records by having a filter (where clause in query) dataflow gets created and no issue to refresh.

 

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We are using Pro license,

  1. Is there any dataflow size limit  or anything like that
  2. also any refresh limit , number of dataflows across workspace. I am aware 8 times per day per dataflow is there

What ae the other options if it doenst work.

Thanks.

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shamsfizi
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thanks @otravers . will have a check 

otravers
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Pro dataflows are constrained in size by the 10GB shared capacity constraint, each entity has to refresh within 2 hours and the entire dataflow has to refresh within 3 hours. 5 million records with 10 columns is not a lot unless you have huge varchar columns with very high cardinality.

 

In any case these limitations should not affect your experience while authoring, but Pro dataflows are not a very scalable ETL platform. Could you try materializing your view in Oracle?

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