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Anonymous
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Scheduled refresh failure - Memory error: Memory Allocation failure

Hi, 

 

Hoping someone will be able to give some advice on what may be causing this issue. 

 

I have a report built up which links to 2 locations both in a SharePoint folder

 

1 is a direct link to an excel file looking up employee details

2 is a document library where the query combines multiple files of raw data all small size nothing over 1mb probably about 49 columns in total.

 

There are a few conditional columns and a couple of customer columns in the combine query but nothing too complex, there is only 1 relationship between the 2 files aligning a serial number from the employee details to the raw data.

 

When I refresh in the desktop absolute no issues it's a bit slow but it goes through however it throws back the following error everytime I refresh in the service.

 

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Any advice on why or how I can resolve this would be great.

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GilbertQ
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Hi @Anonymous 

 

What I would suggest doing is when you are refreshing in PBI Desktop and see how much memory it is consuming during the refresh.





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