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Increase Export Data Limits

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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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908bef05 4dd7-4794-bad5-9be9d9b710b0 on 05 Jul 2020 22:56:52

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

Agree! Max row limits of execl...1M rows.

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379eaae7 7866-4cd3-b473-9b673e2867a2 on 05 Jul 2020 22:56:16

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

It should be as much as the Excel limit of 1M rows

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1adacb4b 3335-4184-baff-75ab3d39d007 on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:59

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

The export amount should be limited to the source file, such as the max rows available in Excel is what I should be allowed to export.

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4338ee1e 3afd-460c-8936-2bf8c359c704 on 05 Jul 2020 22:54:33

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

I need to export a couple millions rows a data and it would be nice to allow PowerBI to export to CVS with no limits on the size. For an Excel export, the limit should be equal to Excel's maximum row limit.

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e23b4847 68c0-440b-83db-aa0a4623fd58 on 05 Jul 2020 22:54:25

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

Power bi , could be used as a great ETL tool. For data migrations. Its data prep tools, are excellent - yes , it would data migrations so easy. You have a wider audience./market than you know..think outside the box.

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0c38aedf 9eb0-4546-a8ba-6d15aa6ac2e0 on 05 Jul 2020 22:52:59

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

Yes, more rows are required ! Can it be equal to excel limit?

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f8c8d4b2 4a63-4572-a1aa-68edc9489f32 on 05 Jul 2020 22:52:03

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

There should be no limits. Developers/Self Serve users wants to justify the figures now and then when challenged by the board. Ideally, it should be admin driven and it does not have to be a synchronous process. Request should run at the back ground and when ready should prompt user.

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a078867f 8c30-406b-809b-506632eaef55 on 05 Jul 2020 22:52:00

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

Just remove the limit, not sure why its even there.

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a3309361 99be-ea11-a812-000d3a8ddfb2 on 05 Jul 2020 22:51:23

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

In many marketing/analytical related scenarios, you would have core business solution data (like Dynamics 365 Sales) made available in an Azure SQL DB, for example telco with 7 million customers. Slice and dice this customer set into 1,6 million rows so you can create a segment in Dynamics is not possible due to these export limitations.

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1663ae41 7b21-41e5-b198-460efdef7611 on 05 Jul 2020 22:51:16

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

I definitely think we should be able to get more than 150k rows but I believe it would be best if this was a Admin controlled setting so that we could adjust the limits so as users are not pulling too much data. I would set mine to around 500k but wouldn't want users trying to pull 2 million plus rows.