Best practice for an initial & schedule refresh.

[Angith_Nair]

Hello team,

Hope you all are doing good.

I have one query related to the initial refresh on service. I have a dataset in which Incremental Refresh has been configured and I have to upscale premium capacity to A4 node every time I have to do an initial refresh. But I don't think so for a scheduled refresh, it would need A4 capacity, hence I can scale down the capacity(let's say to A2). So is this a good practice that every time I have to upscale and downscale whenever I have to do an initial refresh? Could you please guide what are the other ways to do this?

Thank you in advance..

[Greg_Deckler · Accepted solution]

@Angith_Nair Well, I would recommend using ALM Toolkit so that you can avoid doing your initial refreshes. My assumption here is that you are making data model changes, you Publish the new file and that blows away all of your incremental data partitions and you are forced to do a complete reload. ALM Toolkit can make that so you don't have to do that. You can make data model changes without impacting your incremental refresh data partitions.

[Angith_Nair]

@Greg_Deckler Thank you for your help. I Will think about it and will let you know if I have any queries.