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Anonymous
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Incremental refresh vs Full refresh in a single power bi file

hello,

 

I have a usecase to capture data changes in the SQL server DB. 

My solution would be to have a customer table in power bi with incremental refresh where only new data is added to the table and I would name this table as Customer table(incremental refresh). Then i would have another same customer table where this table is fully refreshed everyday and would name this as Customer table(Full refresh). I would then compare the count of customers between  Customer table(incremental refresh) and Customer table(Full refresh). If there is a data change/ some of the historical data is deleted in the SQL database the full refresh table would show up the difference.

 

BTW, i very well know how the incremental refresh set up is made and it would only refresh on PBI service

Please confirm if this is possible. 

 

Thank you,

Ashwin

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amitchandak
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@Anonymous , You can use merge with left/right anti join in the power query to have a table with a difference.

 

in DAX you have except

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Anonymous
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Yes, that's sounds like a great idea. Thanks amit

amitchandak
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@Anonymous , You can use merge with left/right anti join in the power query to have a table with a difference.

 

in DAX you have except

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