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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 01 Feb 2023 00:01:36

WWe ha a new feature that provides an increased limit of 500K rows of data to Excel from a Power BI visual. Learn more...Announcing Connected Excel Tables from Power BI (Public Preview) | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI

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Bill Gaylor on 05 Jul 2020 22:56:52

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

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

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Power BI User 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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Ashley Reilly 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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Tyler L. 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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mg 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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Power BI User 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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sami 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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Taha 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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Power BI Ideas Admin 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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Mike Thibodeaux 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.