Stop Hitting Excel's Row Limit: Power BI Solutions for Massive Datasets

Are you hitting Excel's 1 million row limit and it's crippling your Power BI reports? You're not alone. When your data gets too big for Excel, it's time to let Power BI do the heavy lifting.

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to break free from Excel's limitations. We cover three simple, scalable methods to handle large datasets directly in Power BI, ensuring your reports are always fast, accurate, and up-to-date.

What you'll learn:

[0:40] Why Excel has a row limit and when to move to Power BI.

[1:30] Method 1: Connect Power BI directly to a database (like SQL Server) for ultimate scalability.

[3:00] Method 2: The "Folder Method" — automatically combine multiple Excel or CSV files.

[5:00] Method 3: Link Power BI to cloud storage (SharePoint, OneDrive) and use Dataflows for team collaboration.

Stop forcing Excel to be a database. Start building powerful, future-proof reports in Power BI today. If this video helps you, please like, subscribe, and let us know in the comments which method you're going to try!

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