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Topher60657 on 09 May 2018 21:51:12

Enable Incremental Refresh for Power BI Pro users, not just Premium.

Administrator on 20 Feb 2020 07:50:33

Happy to let you know, incremental refresh is now in Pro. Enjoy :)

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08179c93 1fda-4686-b251-812a557cfe3f on 05 Jul 2020 22:41:23

RE: incremental refresh for Power BI Pro

This is a big show stopper for us. I hope this feature is implemented in near future.

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ac356a93 ecb3-4810-b224-58ccd6204dc1 on 05 Jul 2020 22:41:01

RE: incremental refresh for Power BI Pro

Please work on this feature. It would be extremely helpful and reduce the amount of workarounds that we currently having to implement. If this feature was added, we could truly automate our reporting without the need for manual efforts each day.

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6142645a c7e4-4495-b73c-f598d9992f33 on 05 Jul 2020 22:40:44

RE: incremental refresh for Power BI Pro

Will this ever happen or is it expected we move all data to azure services using direct query?

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94d78a17 4b40-4ddd-aa17-0773d4de532b on 05 Jul 2020 22:40:30

RE: incremental refresh for Power BI Pro

Plz add that feature!

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c70ffae1 f7cc-44c1-89b4-a875fa967f6c on 05 Jul 2020 22:40:27

RE: incremental refresh for Power BI Pro

It's been under review for too long now... This is really a limiting factor for many enterprise project. I just assume Microsoft expects big projects to be modeled in SSAS.

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ac761cd2 74f9-426f-8fa1-fb00662cbd38 on 05 Jul 2020 22:39:49

RE: incremental refresh for Power BI Pro

being from a large company that is looking to replace other BI software with Power BI if one cannot do incremental refresh then this will begin to a large drag on our infrastructure. One which I would not recommend our organization to move toward.

This has been an open question for what appears to be for 2 years. I believe Microsoft needs to prioritize this. My reporting is looking at 3 years of ecommerce transactions to trend data. This is becoming impossible to do any type of reporting.

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34e1d34b 836b-4839-9ca6-91cc3ef083ce on 05 Jul 2020 22:39:26

RE: incremental refresh for Power BI Pro

The incremental data load easily should be considered the top priority for Power BI enhancements.

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7a05e6ea 8e35-e711-80f9-c4346bac219c on 05 Jul 2020 22:39:21

RE: incremental refresh for Power BI Pro

Power BI must benchmark with its much more prices competitors but who also have such advantages, coming from a qlikview background fresh in to PBI, incremental load is an essential feature , along with a generic search feature (across all data), the ability to click a record and filter the report on that record (example click a salesman name all the dashboard will show that salesman's data similar to qlikview hence the "click") and a very basic feature is to allow for copy paste from a table or a matrix.
maybe some of these features there and i am not knowing how to make my way around it, if so please let me know :)

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d84a6a75 73ae-444d-a1e9-7d4d9dd62969 on 05 Jul 2020 22:39:13

RE: incremental refresh for Power BI Pro

This feature is highly needed. To have possibility to refresh (load) only new records - without it Power BI will become useless for bigger data. And companies will switch to something else (like qlik sense). Maybe just personal users will be able to analyze home income and expenditure. But for companies it is useless without incremental refresh.

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7b6630a4 f50b-43d9-83d3-76a0b431e4b1 on 05 Jul 2020 22:39:09

RE: incremental refresh for Power BI Pro

Things like this is what makes me think PBI was thought or made for business with small data requirements. I don't see myself loading TBs of info every time, when only a few records might have changed.

This is a must for any BI tool.

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