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Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

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Jean-Pierre Riehl on 17 Aug 2017 15:02:16

Ability to exclude a table from Data Refresh (scheduled, manual, API, etc.) in the Service.
In PBI Desktop, we have an option "Include in report refresh" we can disable for a table. But it won't affect PBI Service.

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6199a9ed 6bd1-4ea0-801e-abd079e15b5e on 09 Sep 2020 12:32:56

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

I agree with the comments before me, this is not a new feature, but rather a bug fix. Having the selection from PBI desktop not affect PBI service is counter-intuitive design.

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17763e38 3c40-4932-9a31-cf91108913bf on 09 Sep 2020 08:01:38

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

Fix this bug please. This is not a "feature". This should be standard behaviour when selecting "do not include in report refresh".

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a7b3dd42 67d5-ea11-a813-000d3a8faea9 on 03 Aug 2020 09:00:47

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

This is needed. Like the OP I assumed that include in report refresh would be reflected in the service, but it isn't, so I cannot quickly fix a report that's temporarily broken and need to remove it so everything else works. This would have great benefits for several sets of archiving that I'm wanting to do, but cannot as it would require the tables to always be present

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813f701c bf39-43df-8caf-7209182403b1 on 10 Jul 2020 17:22:02

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

Going on 3 years now that this has been like this and yet NO RESPONSE FROM MICROSOFT. Oh, they may say, "It's by design" to which we would all answer, "Well, it's POOR design and you need to re-think it!"

Let's get the word out to friends and co-workers and anybody you might know at Microsoft to raise awareness of this issue.

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3115c3fb 5d15-47ee-b57b-3e140c1fd3ea on 06 Jul 2020 00:18:27

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

This feature was clearly never completed e2e (happens). And now you have enough votes to justify scheduling its completion (necessary for prioritization). Let's do it :)

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1a087f9c d6f7-4cd6-a2e1-83d7b6e03a6f on 06 Jul 2020 00:18:24

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

Very misleading functionality as it currently exists and has led to many production issues.

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4d1253b3 e877-411d-95c1-820a2b9c3c6e on 06 Jul 2020 00:17:30

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

Hi, please add this feature!!

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c77a4165 e73a-43aa-af11-1a42ef97f56c on 06 Jul 2020 00:17:01

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

Why is it that this issue has been reported since 2018 and still has not been resolved? Is there any intention to address it?

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594f27dc 1a9c-42b0-a586-3a1626d16d35 on 06 Jul 2020 00:16:07

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

It has taken me 3 days to figure out that this is what the problem has been for weeks with scheduled refreshes in the Power BI service that fail trying to refresh a table I've disabled load for. Why in the name of all that's holy would the service query a table that you've marked not to query? I agree with the comment that this is a bug, rather than an enhancement. I've needed to completely delete queries that I disabled in Desktop because they were failing in the service.

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caa55fea 7161-45f0-9f02-36bbe9e887c1 on 06 Jul 2020 00:16:01

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

Any update on this?
I have tables coming from both: Business Central (dynamic data that need to be refreshed 8 times a day) & Azure SQL database (fix data that needs to be refreshed only once a week)