Chris Webb's BI Blog: Understanding The “The key didn’t match …
Apr 6, 2020 · That is odd it’s intermittent. Can you try renaming the query, then changing the query to a make table query, run it so that it produces a table with the same name as the original query and then see what happens when you refresh excel again? ie it’s pulling from a static table composed of the same data as it would have pulled in from the query.
How Much Data Can You Load Into Power BI? - Chris Webb's BI Blog
Nov 21, 2022 · The default maximum dataset size in a Power BI Premium capacity or PPU is 10GB, but if you turn on the Large Dataset storage format you can have datasets larger than that and the maximum size depends on the amount of memory available in your Premium capacity. The “Max memory per dataset” column in the table here shows the maximum amount of ...
Refreshing Excel Power Query Queries With VBA And Power …
Feb 27, 2022 · Yes, you can! Here’s a simple example. I created a Power Query query called GetTheDateAndTime that returns the current date and time in a table with one row and column. Here’s the M code for the query: #table(type table [RunDate=datetime], {{DateTime.FixedLocalNow()}}) Next, I created a VBA macro called RunPQQuery to …
Chris Webb's BI Blog: Keep The Existing Data In Your Power BI …
Apr 13, 2020 · [Update September 2023: now that Power BI is part of Microsoft Fabric, the new features of Fabric make it much easier to solve this problem as described here]. Power BI incremental refresh is a very powerful feature and now it’s available in Shared capacity (not just Premium) everyone can use it. It’s designed for scenarios where you have a data warehouse running on a relational database ...
Displaying Routes On A Map In Power BI - Chris Webb's BI Blog
Aug 23, 2020 · In this post I’ll show you how you can put all this together to do something really useful: display routes on a map in a Power BI report. First of all you’ll need to download the latest version of the Icon Map custom visual here, because at the time of writing the version in AppSource doesn’t have the WKT functionality needed.
Troubleshooting Power BI Timeouts, Part 2: Timeouts Specified In …
Dec 12, 2021 · In the first post in this series I showed how the Power BI Service applies a limit on the total amount of time it takes to refresh a dataset in the Power BI Service, except when you initiate your refresh via an XMLA Endpoint. In this post I’ll look at the various timeouts that can be configured in Power Query functions that are used to access data.
Chris Webb's BI Blog: Speed Up Power Query In Power BI Desktop …
Jun 6, 2021 · +1 on Lutz request here – we also desperate to get gateway processing up. Power Query import method take significantly longer to process than native SQL query (i.e. writing sql queries to obtain data) using gateway (don’t see the same difference using desktop).
Chris Webb's BI Blog: Optimising The Performance Of Power …
Jun 7, 2020 · Found the answer myself. To only expand a selected column from the second table using a Table.Join, the easiest is to pre-prepare the second table before the merge operation, i.e. a sub-select on the second table as below
Chris Webb's BI Blog: Combining Data From Multiple Worksheets …
Jul 9, 2018 · Hi Chris, Thanks for sharing this important topic with us. I need to adopt your code to workbook base. For example every month i need to add new excel file with 5 sheets to my project and every sheets column names are different with eachother.
Chris Webb's BI Blog: Connecting To REST APIs With OAuth2 ...
Aug 29, 2021 · Chris Webb Custom Data Connectors, M, Power BI, Power Query August 29, 2021 1 Minute. There are a lot of articles and blog posts out there on how to handle OAuth2 authentication when connecting to REST APIs from Power Query in Power BI. However there is also a lot of confusion and contradictory information too so in this post I want to give you ...