Tabular Model with Incremental Refresh - DevOps Pipelines

[littlemojopuppy]

Good afternoon!  Here's my situation: I've developed a large tabular model with TE3.  The intention is to implement incremental refresh on the model.  The model will be deployed from DEV to QC and eventually PROD via DevOps pipeline.  My concern is all the partitions that incremental refresh creates.  I don't want to deploy the partitions...I'd rather let the Power BI service recreate them every time deployment happens.

Does anyone know of any resources where I can learn more about DevOps pipelines excluding partitions during deployment?  I would appreciate any direction anyone could provide!  🙂

Thank you!

@parry2k @Greg_Deckler @mahoneypat @AllisonKennedy 

[v-jialluo-msft]

Hi  @littlemojopuppy ,

Refer to the following links to see if this helps:

Deployment pipelines, the Power BI Application lifecycle management (ALM) tool, process - Power BI |...

How to Incrementally Load Tabular Models - 1400+ Compatibility Level - (sqlitybi.com)

Best Regards,
Gallen Luo

[littlemojopuppy · Accepted solution]

Hi @v-jialluo-msft !  I found this article.  It explains that during the initial refresh of a model, it will reconfigure partitions to whatever it determines is "best".  So it doesn't matter what partitions get deployed by a pipeline.

But thank you!

[littlemojopuppy]

@v-jialluo-msft thank you.  Will check into them!