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Power BI: Database Was Evicted to Balance the CPU Load

Chris Webb diagnoses a case of passive voice:

A few months ago I wrote about a rare error – the “Maximum allowable memory allocation” error – that may occur when the physical machine, or node, that a semantic model is running on in the Power BI Service comes under memory pressure. Recently, someone I was working with who was doing some load testing showed me a related error:

The operation was canceled and the database was evicted to balance the CPU load on the node. Please try again later.

Read on to see what causes this.

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