What are the different types of refresh options available in Power BI?

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There are four types of refresh options available in Power BI:

  • Package Refresh: It synchronizes your data in Power BI Desktop or Excel files between Power BI service and SharePoint Online and OneDrive.

  • Model or Data Refresh: Refresh the data available in Power BI Service with the data stored in the original data source.

  • Tile refresh: This feature updates the cache for Power BI tiles every 15 minutes on the dashboards.

  • Visual Container Refresh: Used to refresh the visual containers and the visuals of cached reports once the data is changed.