Power BI gets shut down when trying to import Data Model from Excel by SQLDUMPER.EXE

[albertan]

I'm trying to import the data model from Excel that has also DAX formulas. When trying to do that I get the error which says:

"Something went wrong. Failed to import Model from Excel as the upgrade to Tabular failed". I also saw that the SQLDUMPER.EXE file got generated on black command screen. Has anyone experienced this issue?

[V-pazhen-msft]

@albertan 
I have saw this issue in very early desktop version, so make sure you update to the newest version. 

And as the workaround, you may try uncheck the relationship options  then manually create relationship in Power BI desktop.

Paul Zheng _ Community Support Team
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[albertan]

No, this reply did not help me. I basically created a model in Excel and tried to import it and it gave me the error. So relationship in Power Bi is a step after, I couldn't even get to that step. The model in Excel did not have a relationship, I only had one table and few measures. And I got this error message as I described above.