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Kemei
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4 years ago
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Power BI dataflow scheduled refreshes sometimes fail with Execution Timeout Expired errors.

We have a couple of Power BI dataflows scheduled refreshes which sometimes fail when they have run over 10 minutes. The sources for the dataflow are Azure Synapes SQL pool and Office 365 Sharepoint s...
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    edhans
    4 years ago

    The dataflow itself will time out in the preview window after 10min, and no way to change that, but if you save it it will validate and process.

    You could try to break your dataflow into 2 stages.

    1. Bring your Azure Synapse data into a dataflow with the other dataflow. No or minimal transformations.
    2. Create a 2nd dataflow that takes the tables from the first and does the big transformation. This will take advantage of the Enhanced Compute Engine and may process better. Doing everything in one dataflow when complex is usually discouraged.