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Incremental Refresh in Dataflow for Power BI Pro users

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Ruben Sequeira on 20 Feb 2020 16:53:40

Also include incremental refresh in dataflow for Power BI Pro users.

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Mladen Jevtic on 28 Jul 2022 11:04:47

RE: Incremental Refresh in Dataflow for Power BI Pro users

Totally agree with comment from @Terry Hull (on 2/25/2021 11:01:53 PM).In order to keep up with best practices, this should be available for Pro users as well, especially when SME will not go to Premium at all.Hopefully we'll see this available by the end of the year!

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Terry Hull on 25 Feb 2021 23:01:53

RE: Incremental Refresh in Dataflow for Power BI Pro users

Really drives bad practices, whilst you can use dataflows you can not use incremental refresh as a pro licence, which means you either add a heck of a lot more loading time (resources for both microsoft and us) or you build out several datasets which then have the exact same issue.

Really should be a no brainer for Microsoft to say yep incremental refresh in data flows, even if you want to limit the size or rows that can be done for pro. so say Pro limit is 10 million rows , Prem is unlimited.

that way smaller organisations can setup correctly , helping to foster good practices at all levels.

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Shaun Gartland on 21 Sep 2020 07:09:35

RE: Incremental Refresh in Dataflow for Power BI Pro users

Data flows are an excellent advancement for PowerBI
I have taken a great deal of time to add table joins to create better data cubes only to find I cannot use incremental refresh with only a PRO license
Please include this feature In PRO
Our SME cannot justify premium licensing to get this most useful feature
Many thanks
Shaun G

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Oluwaseyi Longe on 26 Jul 2020 17:40:05

RE: Incremental Refresh in Dataflow for Power BI Pro users

I thought this was already available, but it isn´t, and I find it beneficial both for MS and for the end user.

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Anshul Kapoor on 06 Jul 2020 00:15:37

RE: Incremental Refresh in Dataflow for Power BI Pro users

But incremental refresh not enabled for pro users for dataflow ! Please enable for pro

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:13:36

RE: Incremental Refresh in Dataflow for Power BI Pro users

Seriously, how can such a fundamental piece of Power BI / Powery Query functionality not be provided with a Pro licence?

We spend months/years honing best practices in Power Query, teach our clients how to create good models, and then you can't do it in Dataflows without a significant outlay on budget?

Please consider a change on this one. Too core to the Desktop client to not allow it in the PBI service for Pro customers.

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John Clair on 06 Jul 2020 00:11:34

RE: Incremental Refresh in Dataflow for Power BI Pro users

Please include incremental refresh on dataflows for Pro Licences.
It would be a huge benifit.

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Joris Kamma on 06 Jul 2020 00:11:24

RE: Incremental Refresh in Dataflow for Power BI Pro users

Very much so. Especially when your datasource does not allow for query folding, incremental refresh would still speed up the report refresh through a dataflow.
Currently, it's not of much use to me, since the vast majority of my datasources do not allow for query folding, and in general most of my reports are built on dataflows to begin with.

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Wayne Gibbings on 06 Jul 2020 00:08:58

RE: Incremental Refresh in Dataflow for Power BI Pro users

I was very excited to see Pro users getting incremental refresh - until I realised it was Datasets only! There is more of a requirement to have this in Dataflows I think.

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:58

RE: Incremental Refresh in Dataflow for Power BI Pro users

Even having a limited amount of computed entity refresh would be helpful. Moving more common calculated elements out of datasets and into dataflows will improve reusability and help medium to small businesses make much more effective use out of Power BI.