Incremental Refresh makes it possible for Power BI to handle large datasets by partitioning the data into segments and making refreshes faster, more reliable, and less resource intensive.
Hybrid tables, a new addition, can be easily configured for a table with Incremental Refresh to enable different storage modes for its different partitions. This allows historical data to load into Power BI’s memory (import) for super-fast query performance and to leave the most recent data in the backend (DirectQuery) for near real time results.

Join this session to learn about different table storage modes in Power BI including Hybrid, understand the benefits of Incremental Refresh, and see how easy it is to set up Hybrid Tables along with Incremental Refresh to provide super-fast performance for historical data while having recent data be available to users in near real time.