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Narukkp
Helper V
6 years ago
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Updated record behavior in data flow incremental refresh

Hi Team,   I have a doubt on Power bi Dataflow incremental refresh, If we enable the incremental refresh on dataflow how it will handle the updated records i.e. if suppose I have one employee and h...
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    v-lionel-msft
    6 years ago

    Hi Narukkp ,

     

    For the existing record, the refresh process will update it, not delete it and add a new record at the end of the table.

     

    Best regards,
    Lionel Chen

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lbendlin
Super User
6 years ago

Incremental refresh does not handle late updates well. It is designed for data that is immutable after being written.

 

Until the service supports  full refresh requests of incremental data sources your only remedy at the moment is to initiate a refresh from the desktop which will in turn force a full first refresh of the incremental data source.