Mastering DP-600 Certificate: Understanding Incremental Refresh in Power BI

How many times have you bragged about the following: oh, no, I need to refresh my fact table, but it takes soooo long…Maybe it was happening because you haven’t used one of the key performance features when it comes to the data refresh process.

In this video, you'll learn everything you need to know about the incremental refresh feature in Power BI!

[tommartens]

Hey #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, I consider this video one of the best introductions to the "world" of incremental refresh! 👏
Nevertheless, here are some additional thoughts:
- separate your data from the content (your data visualizations), because whenever you publish the data pbix to the Power BI Service your partitions will "reset".
- prepare (meaning) train the initial load because your data is growing over time. I consider not training the initial load to be similar to Schroedingers backup, without a restore you do not know if the backup was successful
- also, it is likely that you are already backed by a Premium capacity, if not take this into account (or Premium Per User licensing), the reason behind this - you can leverage the XMLA endpoint to update your semantic model with new measures without "resetting" the partitions

[avocadoarmadillo]

Very helpful! I need to start making better use of incremental refresh, I've been neglecting it!!

[ashwin]

Good content for PowerBI incremental refresh