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jayblog
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8 years ago
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Slow Refresh Power BI Service - Excel File

I've got a 25 KB Excel file I'm using as the dataset for a report.  Sometimes, refreshing it takes 1-2 seconds.  Other times, it takes 10+ minutes.  I don't understand the reason for the long refresh...
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    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Hi jayblog,

    You should take into account that refresh also needs/consume part of the capacity you own.
    Please check what else happening in the same time that takes over the capacity.
    A solution could be to schedule the refresh in non rush hours or queue the refreshes for the night.

    This is the answer I got from internal teams for the same problem (with an Azure SQL server dataset).

    Hope this helps.

    Thanos