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Refresh a Power BI dataset that feeds from SharePoint list automatically

The Power BI team recently shipped some cool new flow options and one of them is really cool. Many times I hear of reports and dataset that fully rely on SharePoint lists. These lists are used by business groups that don’t have the rights to spin…

24 January 2020

Data & Analysis

Power BI Dataset Refresh Scheduling Using Outlook And Power Automate

When the new “Refresh a dataset” action for Power Automate (formerly Flow) was released last year I couldn’t help thinking there must be something really cool you could do with it – I just didn’t know what. Source : Chris Webb's BI Blog Read more...

20 January 2020

Data & Analysis

Power BI, Caching, Parallelism And Power Query Refresh Performance

Some time ago a customer of mine (thank you, Robert Lochner) showed me a very interesting scenario where a set of Power Query queries in Power BI Desktop refreshed a lot faster with the “Enable Parallel Loading Of Tables” option turned off. Source : Chris Webb's…

3 April 2019

Data & Analysis

Data Privacy Settings And Data Refresh Performance In Excel And Power BI

I have known for a long time that data privacy checks can have an impact on the performance of data refresh in Power BI and Excel, but on a recent performance tuning engagement I had the chance to observe just how much of a difference changing…

2 January 2019

Data & Analysis

Calling The Power BI REST API From Microsoft Flow, Part 2: Refreshing A Dataset When a Data Source Changes

For a while now I’ve had an idea stuck in my head: wouldn’t it be cool to build a Power BI solution where a user could enter data into an Excel workbook and then, as soon as they had done so, they could see their new…

1 November 2018

Data & Analysis

Troubleshooting Data Refresh Performance Issues With OData Data Sources In Power BI And Excel Using Fiddler

A lot of people have problems with the performance of OData data sources when loading data into Power BI and Excel. One possible cause of these problems is query folding not taking place – if this is the case then the Power Query engine will be…

10 May 2018

Data & Analysis

Using Parameter Tables To Control Data Refresh In Power BI

The use of parameter tables is a well-known technique in Power Query. It involves using a table from the current Excel workbook to hold various parameter values that are read using a Power Query query, and these parameter values are then passed to another Power Query…

6 January 2016