Is report refresh scheduled on Power BI Service fail-safe?

[PBISupport]

I mean I could test this out myself but would like to know what the official intent of the service is if anyone knows or if MSFT Power BI developer could chime in.

[ValtteriN · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Okay, I understand your question now. This depends on the type of refresh you are doing, but generally speaking the refresh operation is transactional so if there is a failure the previous state is retained, as tou said like there wasn't any refresh in the first place.

[ValtteriN]

Hi,

No, there is a retry amount cap:

"If a scheduled refresh fails four times in a row, Power BI disables the refresh. Address the underlying problem, and then re-enable the scheduled refresh."

Meaning that if your data refresh fails four times (e.g. due to crendentials expiring) you need to setup the refresh again.

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[PBISupport]

Thanks. By fail-safe I mean the traditional definition in coding. Some also use the term atomic interchangeably. All jargons aside, I mean if the dataset failed mid-refresh do I get partial refresh up to the failure or do I get the original as if no refresh happened at all?