Stucking on creating connection in model - Power BI
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I connect my sql database to Power BI. I got sth like 80.000 rows and I have two additional calculated columns that get previous vales. Here is a code Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom", "prev_action3", each try #"Added Custom" { [Index] -1 } [Action Type] otherwise null) " When I click close & apply I got stuck in "Creating connection in model" with over an hour now with nooutput. Without 2 columns close &apply cost like 1-2 minutes. I already tried this one https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/stucking-on-creating-connection-in-model/m-p/276796 , but it does not change anything.

Haya answered 29/9, 2021 at 6:20 Comment(0)
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Tried the Solution above, still doeswn't work. Stuck at Creating Connection in Model.

This is happening after September2021 update of PowerBI Desktop.

I tried degrading to previous version od Power BI Desktop(August2021) Version. It is fixed now.

Crossness answered 30/9, 2021 at 6:5 Comment(3)
How to downgrade my version to August2021?Do I have to reinstall Power Bi?Haya
yes. remove and then install new versionAcciaccatura
Nothing is wrong in the uploading, only in what it shows you, you can look at my answer on this threadDictator
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Haven't tried it yet (I've got the same problem), but you can get older versions from here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/fundamentals/desktop-latest-update-archive?tabs=powerbi-desktop

Woo! Worked first time after installing August 2021. Looks like something broken in Sept 2021

Stretcherbearer answered 30/9, 2021 at 6:36 Comment(1)
I downgraded my version to August but still stuck in Evaluating and creating connection model :/ . I hope they will soon fix thisHaya
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This is a bug from PBi but nothing is wrong

If you already had this report going well before :

Power BI decided (or not) to not show anymore the numbers of rows it is counting.

You feel like it's stuck and not working anymore --> do not worry, still going the same speed as before, it is just not telling you

Here are some links on the question :

Power Bi community : creating connection

Reddit : creating connection

Dictator answered 25/10, 2021 at 9:49 Comment(0)
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Same here, stuck on creating connection in model on MYSQL database after Sept2021 Update. Can't believe I have to downgrade it...

Edit: Got it to work downgrading to August version.

Ching answered 13/10, 2021 at 14:21 Comment(0)
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It seems to be an optical glitch only. My models also don't perform a rowcount anymore when refreshing the data, however after a while the data does get refreshed, so the data is being loaded in the background.

Changeover answered 21/10, 2021 at 7:25 Comment(1)
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Yep same here - I went from the August 2021 release to October 2021 and the problem occurs in this later version too. It just gets stuck on the "creating connection in model...". I saved the August 2021 installer so will be reverting.

After downgrading to the August release my problem was resolved. Issue is going to be fixed in the November 2021 release apparently. See the link below which includes links to get previous versions (on page 5).

Stucking on creating connection in model - Power BI

Harrumph answered 18/10, 2021 at 1:30 Comment(1)
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I had the same issue and to downgrade the pbi version worked very well.

I found the previous versions in this following link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/fundamentals/desktop-latest-update-archive?tabs=powerbi-desktop.

Nanine answered 28/10, 2021 at 13:42 Comment(0)
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I accidentally stumbled across a fix for my problem. My Power Query was a Web.contents() Get api request and it simply could not get past the Enable Load into model and I was getting the same in progress timer indefinitely.

It turns out, the API response was returning a nested json which is equivalent to table of tables and I think each table, however small, is loaded by a thread.

Fix for me was to navigate under home file menu Option & Settings -> Global Options and set the Maximum Number of Simultaneous Evaluations to more than 1 (which it was by default)

See attached screenshot of Global Options menu

Christine answered 15/7, 2022 at 23:13 Comment(0)
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I had the same issue, This issue has been for a long time. The one way to overcome is access the query in the advanced editor, copy and paste it as a new query and then load it would work fine. However, if you already have a working report you might have to redo the data model should there be one.

Callimachus answered 1/10, 2021 at 16:22 Comment(0)

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