Increase Export Data Limits
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.
AdminAdam Wilson (POWER BI)
(Product Manager, Microsoft Power BI)
shared this idea
24 comments
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Jeffery Morris
commented
We are really limited on rolling this out due solely to this issue.
It is also odd that there is no warning (at least when exporting from a matrix). My data stopped around 38k rows (there was supposed to be 200k) and I only happened to notice because the totals were off.
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Antonio
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Definetively, improving export limits will become very useful when working with lots of data, since I need my team to action several reports for more than 150K lines. Totally love Power BI, but that is something Tableau can do and Power BI cannot.
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Anonymous
commented
1MM rows please
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Luis Lucchini
commented
Increasing (or removing) this limit would certainly take our usage of power bi to the next level with the combination of the efforts from several of our teams. Excited to see increased integration of Power BI and R!
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Aaron
commented
will these limits be extended to Power BI Reporting Services as well. And also in the Power BI SSRS executable?
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Ira Saktor
commented
The use of R programming with PBI would benefit greatly from increasing this limit to way higher numbers. 150.000 is a real constraint if you have to work with higher frequency data.
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Bill Gaylor
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Agree! Max row limits of execl...1M rows.
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Anonymous
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It should be as much as the Excel limit of 1M rows
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Ashley Reilly
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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.
commented
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
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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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Anonymous
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Yes, more rows are required ! Can it be equal to excel limit?
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sami
commented
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
commented
Just remove the limit, not sure why its even there.
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Philip Verlinden
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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
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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.
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Tebogo Lekokotla
commented
Please remove the limit as this now makes our competitors more powerful than Power BI
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Taha
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Why set a limit? What's the thought behind it? Just remove the limit, it'll help all of us.
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Anonymous
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Please set the export limit to the current excel worksheet row limit less 5 row header space and keep them pegged together.
There are many times when power users need to build an excel model off of dashboard data for future scenario analysis. Getting that data from the same source as the power bi dashboard would make this process much easier.
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Anonymous
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Adam, does the same 30,000 limit also apply to Power BI Desktop and if so, can you please provide a reference link? Can the Desktop limit be increased?