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Incremental Power BI Model Refresh

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You are working on a large Power BI semantic model that has grown beyond full refresh windows. The model pulls from a warehouse table with several years of history, and refreshes are starting to fail or run too long during business hours. You need a design that keeps recent data current while avoiding unnecessary reprocessing of older partitions.

Question

How would you set up incremental refresh for a large Power BI model?