At present, I have a dashboard connected to reports as seen below:
It would appear, even though all 3 are connected to the same live azure analysis services instance, the report on the right does not refresh live, but only once every several days.
Is there a setting that I missed that would permit connecting to azure analysis services in a more live way than simply connecting to it?
If your dataset is configured for a live or DirectQuery connection, datasets are refreshed approximately each hour or when interaction with the data occurs. You can manually adjust the refresh frequency in the Scheduled cache refresh option in the Power BI service.
When you refresh data, you are updating the data in the dataset that is stored in Power BI from your data source. This refresh is a full refresh and not incremental.
For a live connection to Analysis Services, the dataset definition comes from Analysis Services directly.
For more details, refer “Data refresh in Power BI”.
Hope this helps.
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I am working on SSAS Tabular project and I am using Live Connection when importing data to Power BI.
Do I need to schedule refresh in Power BI ?
Power BI does not import data over connections that operate in DirectQuery/LiveConnect mode. Instead, the dataset returns results from the underlying data source whenever a report or dashboard queries the dataset. Power BI transforms and forwards the queries to the data source.
Although DirectQuery mode and LiveConnect mode are similar in that Power BI forwards the queries to the source, it is important to note that Power BI does not have to transform queries in LiveConnect mode. The queries go directly to the Analysis Services instance hosting the database without consuming resources on shared capacity or a Premium capacity.
Because Power BI does not import the data, you don't need to run a data refresh. However, Power BI still performs tile refreshes and possibly report refreshes, as the next section on refresh types explains. A tile is a report visual pinned to a dashboard, and dashboard tile refreshes happen about every hour so that the tiles show recent results. You can change the schedule in the dataset settings, or force a dashboard update manually by using the Refresh now option.
I'm really confused about how i can refresh data that i use in my powerBi.
The data come from a server in SQL, at first time i choosed to use DirectQuery as importation mode, after a litle bit of time i observed that its took time when i want to change things like measure or representations.
So i opted to change directquery to importation in order to gain time.
I would like to know how can i get the newest data from my sql server automaticly, because i have line which is added every day, would i use accrementiel refresh?
Just set up a daily refresh schedule in the Power BI Service. If you have big data with a long history you might also benefit from incremental refresh, but that's alread an optimization step.
Are you aware of power bi gate way ?
Keep your dashboards and reports up to date by connecting to your on-premises data sources without the need to move the data. (https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/gateway/)
You just need to install power bi gateway to your server.
Then you can visit power bi service -> settings -> manage gateway . You can setup new gateway here.
Once you create connection you can schedule refresh time with your UTC time.
Note: you need to buy power bi pro or premium licence for that. Pro licence has 8 times refreshes per day and premium has about 48 times per day(premium is very expensive) .
And their is feature called incremental refresh, you have to setup it prom power bi dashboard.
It may take 10-20 minutes to refresh data set.(mentioned in power bi site)
Hi do you using Power BI desktop?
click on your page not visual, on the visualization you will see,option called page refresh. set this On.
set Refresh type to Auto page refresh.
set Refresh this page every the value you want(seconds,minutes,hours,day).
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Why Power BI service does not refresh data automatically. The forums mention that with Power BI Pro license allows to schedule refresh 8 times and Power BI Premium allows us to schedule refresh with a higher frequency. There is always an option to manually refresh the dataset/dashboard.
Does that mean Power BI does not provide the ability for live reporting.
We are not sure when was the last update for the dashboard.
Please suggest if we have some workaround. Iam using web api as data source.
Real-time reports are possible with push or streaming datasets.
DirectQuery is another possibility for frequently changing data.
What's your connection ? DirectQuery or import in your current report ?
Schedule refresh for your dashboard does not mean your data will refresh, you have to refresh your dataset also, and depending your source if you are using dataflows it will refresh your last dataset update. I'll suggest you to check out guy in the cube channel on youtube.
I was able to refresh a power BI report using the desktop application. But when I am trying to schedule a refresh using the web application I am getting the following error.
I am getting data using the web source. I am using functions in the connection string. Is there a way I can schedule refresh in this case.
The maximum size for datasets imported into the Power BI service is 1 GB and Power BI Service places a limit on the amount of uncompressed data that is processed during refresh to 10 GB.
If you still hit the above two limitations, you are not able to refresh dataset in Power BI Service. You can use DirectQuery/Live connection mode to connect to your data source instead, or purchase Power BI Premium license to solve this issue.
You can also try to solve the issue by creating a view of the table within the source database
References:
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/report-server/scheduled-refresh
I know it is possible to adhoc refresh the data on power bi desktop but unlike on power bi online I am unable to find a way of creating a scheduled refresh. I have looked into personal gateways but unable to find a suitable solution. I want the data to be refreshed daily and this data is coming from a postgres database in Amazon Web Service where the data is updated daily.
Power BI desktop(local) have only manual refresh, scheduler is not available in desktop power bi when you want to implement scheduler then follow this link
how-to-configure-schedule-refresh-in-power-bi-reports
when you established a connection using the database and create report and publish on app power bi from power bi desktop after that apply scheduler then it will reflect data changes on every refresh.
Cheers.