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MiguelMartinez
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5 years ago

Share your thoughts on streaming dataflows aka SDF (preview feature)

Back at MBAS, our CVP Arun Ulag gave everybody a sneak peek of streaming dataflows, the new experience for real-time data preparation and comsumption in Power BI. Later at BUILD, we showed everyone a...
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Shivan
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5 years ago

Can not see cold table in Power BI Desktop, only hot table (which works perfect).

Re: Hi Anonymous, can you confirm that you're using "Power Platform dataflows" connector and not "Power BI dataflows"? If yes, is there an error that you see or it takes a long time to get data? Usually, loading cold entities take a little while since it pulls in all the historical data.

 

Retention is set to 7 days, could this be switched off in PowerBI Admin?

Re: Unfortunately no, the max retention policy that is allowed is 7 days (which only pertains to hot entities). You should still be able to tap into historical data using cold entities for data past that 7 day time window.

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Anonymous
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4 years ago

Shivan, MiguelMartinez , Eklavya  - I do not see the option for Power Platform Dataflows, is there a preview feature I am missing

 

 

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    Eklavya
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    4 years ago

    It has now been renamed to "Dataflows"

     

     

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      Anonymous
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      4 years ago

      Someone needs to update their documentation in that case ğŸ˜‚