DataFlow – Behind the Scenes

I have been posting a lot from the Data Flow in Power Platform, because I needed to use it internally. So far this tool is extremely interesting, but I am not sure it is 100% clear to me how it all works.

This is why i decided to import 94.000 contacts to 1 account, to see how fast/slow it was. I also wanted to monitor how much this affects the API or any other stuff in the CDS/Dynamcis base. This post is mostly for my own curiosity.

I decided to start with a Dynamics instances that didn’t have any users active, and no data. The following data is gathered from https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com.

Data:
Excel rows = 94884
Excel file size 4,7 megabytes

Excel File for Sample Data – Source for my list. I did clean it a bit before importing it in, and added a column for Account Number =…