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Remove Unused Data Sources

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Sam Lester on 15 Nov 2016 15:59:06

During development, I often add the superset of data sources that I may need in the reports. After completion, I manually remove the data sources and tables that aren't used in the reports. This becomes a big effort when using a large data model, such as reporting on a data warehouse.

Having the ability to identify and remove unused data sources in bulk would save a lot of time and effort.

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Jared Bielecki on 05 Jul 2020 23:52:04

RE: Remove Unused Data Sources

I inherited a couple tools that are built very well but with very clunky SQL and run very slow. It would be amazing to have the program tell me what fields I am not using so I can easily go in and remove them from my SQL queries.

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Steve on 05 Jul 2020 22:45:47

RE: Remove Unused Data Sources

Currently splitting out a behemoth of a set of reports into multiple files. This feature would be incredibly helpful.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:38:36

RE: Remove Unused Data Sources

would also be good for used columns to be moved to the right of the table automatically (as an option)