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Adam Wilson (POWER BI) on 24 Feb 2017 01:34:44

In late 2016, Power BI improved our export data options to allow exporting up to 150,000 rows to Excel from a visual on a Power BI dashboard for Pro users. If you require higher limits, please vote on this idea. If you have more specific requirements, please leave them in the comments.

Administrator on 30 Jul 2020 16:56:47

There are longer term plans to allow larger exports in that use case, but there isn't a current timeline as to when that will be available. Customers who have Power BI Premium can set a drill-through to paginated reports via URL parameters as a workaround in the interim, as there is no data export limit for paginated reports.

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058fb7ba 34c4-4362-b217-200031f0741c on 05 Jul 2020 23:00:55

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

Definitely support a higher limit. Also, why can't I export to XLSX from a table when no aggregates are in the table?

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0529b2ea 99fd-4d79-9d44-f49387f6e4bf on 05 Jul 2020 23:00:29

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

Removing the limit would be a huge step to give Power BI even more power and to become a stronger alternative to Tableau

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8ce9967f a016-4352-b4cd-9f1d20d71234 on 05 Jul 2020 22:59:57

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

Major roadblock to convincing decision makers about the efficiency of using Power BI when compared to other platforms. Please remove this constraint --

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3fd2075d afe6-47f0-bf9b-bb9d75934375 on 05 Jul 2020 22:59:53

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

This limit is a major blocker for using PowerBI with my Investment Banking client, many of their reports need to go out to customers in Excel format and can be up to 300k records, I presume this issue is related to limiting memory resources on the server? Can this not be overcome?

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cd976431 dafd-4d00-8982-624f3f080102 on 05 Jul 2020 22:59:25

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

We are really limited on rolling this out due solely to this issue.

It is also odd that there is no warning (at least when exporting from a matrix). My data stopped around 38k rows (there was supposed to be 200k) and I only happened to notice because the totals were off.

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6835522f ba21-42aa-89b9-8ba618360568 on 05 Jul 2020 22:59:02

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

Definetively, improving export limits will become very useful when working with lots of data, since I need my team to action several reports for more than 150K lines. Totally love Power BI, but that is something Tableau can do and Power BI cannot.

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44322294 fdcf-453b-8ffe-6ffde724bb66 on 05 Jul 2020 22:59:02

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

1MM rows please

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fcdb1739 57f3-4f7d-9ed0-b4891d71c396 on 05 Jul 2020 22:58:42

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

Increasing (or removing) this limit would certainly take our usage of power bi to the next level with the combination of the efforts from several of our teams. Excited to see increased integration of Power BI and R!

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51609a61 5c8a-4ccc-97ca-05c18d8c9d94 on 05 Jul 2020 22:57:18

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

will these limits be extended to Power BI Reporting Services as well. And also in the Power BI SSRS executable?

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a3309361 99be-ea11-a812-000d3a8ddfb2 on 05 Jul 2020 22:57:00

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

The use of * programming with PBI would benefit greatly from increasing this limit to way higher numbers. 150.000 is a real constraint if you have to work with higher frequency data.