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Taisuke
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3 years ago
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Problem with exceeding storage space when Power BI Pro license is used

Hello all   We are considering creating a new workspace to create a report in an environment that is already using Power BI with a Pro license. Upon consideration, the development of the report ha...
  • StefanoGrimaldi's avatar
    3 years ago

    hey, 

    take a look to this doc talking about capacity storage managment: 

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-admin-manage-your-data-storage-in-power-bi

    in short, the workspace that exceed the capacity wont be able to refresh, add new content, etc. same for the model wont be able to refresh. using multiple workspace and dividing the model in different datasets its a way to divide the load according. algo using dataflow to storage the data in azure data lake gen 2 its a efficient way to attack this topic. basically using dataflow wont use workspace storage, and when consuming a dataflow data it consume way less in the data model tham importing and tranforming directly on the dataset.