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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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Toby Lawler on 05 Jul 2020 23:47:25

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

Is this by design so that Premium licensing is required to do incremental refreshes? I sure hope not.

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Jonelle Fidelino on 05 Jul 2020 23:45:43

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

please make this happen!!!!!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:44:17

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

Adding to the comments that this needs to be added.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:43:16

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

It’s a pain getting IT input a password into a shared sql database every time minor changes are made in an xl

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jennifer staab on 05 Jul 2020 23:42:25

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

Agree with all the rest of the comments, this feature needs to be added into PowerBI Service.

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naomi keetham on 05 Jul 2020 23:41:25

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

This feature needs to added into PowerBI Service. Majority of the reports have static data.

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John Meyer on 05 Jul 2020 23:41:19

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

Need this desperately, have loads of reports where 80% of the data is static and historical, which I've partitioned in datasets with no refresh required. But to no avail with the BI Service. Making me consider other solutions.

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Louis Dorn on 05 Jul 2020 23:38:03

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

This definitely seems like a bug.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:37:25

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

Is very important!

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David Cresp on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:30

RE: Exclude a table from refresh in Power BI Service

I have just realised that this is the issue that is meaning that I can't refresh in Power BI Service. It took me a while to find this idea and it seems crazy that you can turn refresh of in PBI Desktop but that this has no effect in Power BI Service. There are lots of cases that not all the data needs to be refreshed. Please MS make it so that this works in Desktop and PBI Sericve. It does not make any sence for this setting to not work in both locations.

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