Incremental refresh in Power BI - powerbi

When I watch my query it shows "View native query" is enabled:
But when I try to add incremental loading it still gives me a warning:
Should I just ignore it? Every single guide I've watched and read always tell that if you can open "View native query" it means it can be folded and incremental refresh will work.

You can check whether query folding is actually happens when you refresh the report. Depending on the data source you have you can use couple of methods described here: https://youtu.be/QEFze-LdLqo.
If you use Google BigQuery (possible in other databases as well) you should also be able to see queries that were actually performed in your database.
If you have proper query folding you shouldn't have any problem with using incremental refresh. View Native Query can even be disabled, but query folding might still happen under the hood. So it always better to check what's the query in your database in any case, just to be sure.

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Power Bi Desktop Error Message: Each original name must belong to the set of all names

I have a query that imports two sheets from an xlsx file, combines the data, unpivots it, and does other cleanup steps. For the resulting fact table I also defined relations to 3 further dim tables.
Then I decided to refactor the query in the PowerQuery editor, including splitting the query up into 3 steps and disabling load of the the first two. (To play it safe I also stored my pbix w/o applying the steps.)
But then after a Close & Apply I got the following cryptic error message:
Something went wrong.
Each original name must belong to the set of all names.
PBIDesktop version is 2.96.701.0 64-bit (August 2021)
Searching the web I found people suggesting that the error might be related to specific PBIDesktop versions and that moving back to a previous version would solve the issue.
For me it was easier than that, though a bit mysterious:
In PowerQuery I enabled load for all sub-queries,
let it apply all my steps and the error message was gone.
Then back in PowerQuery I could disable load for the sub-queries w/o triggering the error again!
I hope that this might help someone somewhen.

Power BI - "Expression.Error: The column of the table wasn't found

This error pops up randomly when I import data to Power BI using Supermetrics API about a day after when trying to refresh.
For example, using Adobe Analytics data, when I try to refresh my dashboard a day later, I sometimes get this error, saying
When I click on "Go to error" it takes me to Changed type step, but I see that the code remains the same as I first imported it.
Going to Navigation step, I see that the data has changed, but I don't know why, since I haven't changed anything since I pulled data to Power BI.
What it used to look like:
vs what it looks like now
I have tried seeking help from Microsoft community, but no use, since most topics suggest changes to the code, which I haven't done.
This is 100% an issue in import, and as this issue has only just come up now it is due to a change in source format.
Looking at the breakdown of your imported data, it seems as though you are accessing a web source? This makes me think that the html make-up of that webpage has changed.
Unfortunately, the easiest way of dealing with something like this, is to rebuild the query from the ground up. If you are still struggling, let me know and I will have a look into it further.
Possibly, the 'Date' column is not arriving from the data feed (Supermetrics API) during your refresh. When you come across this issue, read the data feed in other Power BI window or check in the source so that you can confirm, the 'Date' column is missing during a particular point in time.
Thanks.
For me, I found that when my data source changed in terms of column header name, this error was thrown. You probably already sorted it out by now, but any future readers, I would double check the source to make sure no changes were made that might affect this, and then if the source is unchanged in it's version history, then rebuild the inquiry again. It sucks if this is due to a PBI issue, but these two methods should solve 99% of the instances of this error.

muliple steps oledb operation generated using sql server compact edition

I am using SQL Server Compact Edition.
One of the column size of my table is more than 500.
When I am Selecting from this table I am getting this error in visual studio:
multiple steps oledb operation generated
How can I avoid this error?
This may happen when you pass an unexpected value in one of your DB operation (say you pass NULL to a non-NULL field for example).
I would expect the error message to be longer and more informative (did you truncate it ?). In the current situation, that's pretty much all we can say about it.
A quick google search gave me that link which may help.

RDbms name and version

I m doing a software in c++ that permit to access to some rdbms with qt library.
The software is only for pc.
The software need to know the name of rdbms and version beacuse the program needs to choose some sql query to execute. Is there any way to retrieve thisdata in any rdbms?
Is there any way to retrieve thisdata in any rdbms?
This is specific to each RDBMS - for example, in Oracle, you can do
select *
from v$version;
but in other RDBMS this view does not exist.
Some possible approaches:
You need to define connect parameters somewhere anyways. Even they are often RDBMS-specific, so you could simply add another parameter like SQLFlavor=Oracle or SQLFlavor=MySQL and then use the value of SQLFlavor in your code to determine which SQL statement to use
You can use some heuristics to find out the RDBMS. For example, query the v$version view - if it does not exist, you will get an error and you know that it is not Oracle and you can continue with the next try (like SELECT VERSION() to see if it is MySQL). Otherwise, you can use the result to find out the concrete Oracle version.

data is generated in database even if we perform preview data option in spoon

can some one suggest me best idea to overcome this situation. Iam using kettle 4.1.0 community version, here when i want to preview the data in spoon for the transformation table output, then when i click on preview data option, the data is being generated in database directly even if we are not performing Run transformation option.. how can i overcome this problem..
regards
kiran kumar.g
Thats just how it works. Perhaps the name "preview" is badly named.
Couple of ways around it. Preview the step before the table output, and disable the hop so no data goes to table output. If the table output step is collecting several inputs, then put a "dummy" step and make that do the collecting, and then preview that.
or change your db to use a local db (via properties or jndi or even a different connection on the step) then you wont care if the db is generated.