Questions tagged [powerbi-datasource]
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Best way to store text values to access with PowerBI?
I need to store two text values (user's e-mail and job title) in Azure Blob Storage to feed a dashboard in powerBI.
Is this possible in Azure Blob Storage? Am I better off using another datasource?
I also want to be able to write values to the…

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Power BI: How to save slicer selected id in database against that login user
Power BI: How to save Slicer selected value in database against login user.i am using one table on sql server eg. as below
if user 1 select 5 option from slicer 1,2,3,4,5 and after click on save button that value should be save in…

varun kulkarni
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Azure Percept to Stream Analytics to PowerBI DirectQuery connection with PowerQuery calendar
Problem Definition : I have Azure Percept data with a timestamp being fed through Azure Stream Analytics to a PowerBI report. I want to add a custom calendar table and tie it together with a relationship but the datetime data type is not allowing…

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How to clear the data in a Power BI Report when publishing it to multiple clients via DevOps
We are building a generic Power BI Reporting suite for a product. Every time we commit the PBIX file to Source Control our DevOps project publishes the report to multiple workspaces, clears the SQL Connection, and reattaches it to the SQL database…

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How do I configure the Service Principal credentials expiration on refresh to connect Power BI Sql Azure Data Source?
I am using Powershell to update credentials on a Power BI datasource based on Sql Azure.
The credentials are that of a Service Principal's, I obtain a Sql access token and submit changes.
The payload lokos like this:
$UpdateUserCredential = @{
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Is there any Power Bi api available for providing access to Dataset?
I have found api for adding user to workspace(group) as well as Add Datasource user. I would like to know, if there is any api available for adding user to dataset?
From the Power Bi Web portal, this is accessed by:
Workspace -> Datasets + Dataflows…

Sreejith Sreekumar
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How to update Azure SQL datasource credentials of PowerBI dataset programmatically?
I have an Azure Devops Process which uses a Service Principle to deploy a Power BI report from a .pbix file and updates the data source to point at the production Azure SQL server.
The outcome is that the report and dataset are deployed and the…

Rohith Korupalli
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Data Source Credentials and Scheduled Refresh greyed out in Power BI Service
I have a problem:
I have a PBI file containing three data sources: 2 SQL Server sources + 1 API call.
I have separate queries for each respective data source and an additional query that combines all three queries into a single table.
Both SQL…

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How to download Power BI dataset without publishing to web
I'm using a calculated column that is an average. The problem is, the average is above the range of possible values, which should be impossible. I made a calculated column that calculates the average star rating (out of a range of 1-5) and the value…

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Connecting Azure Blob Container to Power BI Service
I am was tasked with importing some data to power BI service from an azure container... i was given the Query to import the data. However the query only imports a single file at a time and you have have to import and append each file to your data…

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Can PowerBI direct query work with SQL row-level security?
I am trying to implement Direct query report on SQL database with row-level security. PowerBI is not letting me fire a Stored Procedure(sp_set_session_context) in direct query mode.
Any help is appreciated.

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Azure Data Warehouse limitation and suggestion for storagr
I am facing some issue with Azure data warehouse. Currently I am storing all the data include master data and some large core table for the organization. These data set are feeding large amount of power bi dashboard and report. These dashboard…

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Update PowerBI datasource parameters programatically using PBI API
I would like to update my datasource credentials to AzureTable Storage.
To know how is the format of the credentials I maked a Get datasources infos on an existing already linked dataset ( via power bi desktop )
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"@odata.context":…

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Cannot connect on-premise gateway with postgres on PowerBI
With powerbi desktop I can easily connect with postgres database on server(192.168.1.5:32100) running on a port and a database_name. But doing the same with PowerBI on premise gateway I could not connect when adding a data source on gateway…

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How to export data from Zoho Expense site to Power BI desktop using the Zoho Creator (Beta) app
I need to export data from Zoho Expense site to Power BI desktop using the Zoho Creator (Beta) app
Is that possible? Please let know
Also, how can I find the domain, the workspace name, the Application link name and the Report name link
as you can…

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