Forum Discussion
Regarding Incremental updates
The more complicated answer is that no, this will not work. Power BI is not a storage solution. You MUST keep your snapshots/historical data further upstream. The moment you make structural changes to your report and publish this to the workspace your incremental refresh will reset and all your old data will be lost.
Hi Another_User ,
The answer is no, incremental refresh has a 'scrolling window mode'. As the refresh time passes, when a history partition is no longer within the history period defined by the policy, it is completely removed from the model. This will result in incorrect data on your expectations.
Regarding the issue of incremental refresh, I hope you read the following documentation:
Incremental refresh for semantic models and real-time data in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
Best Regards,
Wenbin Zhou
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Hey Another_User ,
the simple answer is: yes, data will be added to already existing data in your semantic model.
Regards,
Tom
The more complicated answer is that no, this will not work. Power BI is not a storage solution. You MUST keep your snapshots/historical data further upstream. The moment you make structural changes to your report and publish this to the workspace your incremental refresh will reset and all your old data will be lost.