A scheduled refresh of a Power BI sales dashboard fails with this message:
Expression.Error: The column 'SalesAmount' of the table wasn't found.
The data-warehouse team confirms that the column was recently renamed to Total_Sales in the source view that the dataset imports. To restore the dashboard with the least disruption, which validation action should the analyst take first?
Refresh the dataset's schema and remap the missing field to the new Total_Sales column in the data model.
Delete and recreate the on-premises data gateway connection for the dataset.
Rebuild indexes on the source table to improve query performance.
Extend the scheduled refresh time-out so the query has more time to run.
The error indicates that the report still expects a field named SalesAmount, but the underlying schema now exposes the field as Total_Sales. Validating data-structure changes involves refreshing the dataset metadata or editing the query to map to the renamed column so that visuals and calculations reference the correct field. Adjusting refresh time-outs, rebuilding the gateway connection, or tuning database indexes will not resolve a missing-column reference because they do not correct the mismatch between the report schema and the updated source.
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