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Q&A with Azure SQL?
We'd like to load a Microsoft sample SQL dataset, like the old "Adventure Works Bicycle Factory sample dataset" but read below that Q&A is "not supported" but "may in the furture"?
Is there anyway today with a different Azure service or approach?
https://support.powerbi.com/knowledgebase/articles/581421-azure-sql-database-with-direct-connect
OMG ... "perhaps" I just got lucky after Bing searching for 2 hours !!!
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaevans/archive/2015/03/06/adventure-works-for-azure-sql-database.aspx
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Use Excel or Power BI Desktop. Connect to your Azure SQL data and pull it into your model. Upload XLSX or PBIX file to Power BI Service. Q&A away.
Super, thank you ... I will try that ... in order to use Q&A (we have only used the sample data set so far) is there any methodology to the way the SQL data is "structured or named"?
For example, we'd like to load the old "Adventure Works Bicycle Factory sample dataset" - or are there better SQL datasets that are structured for Q&A?
Forgive the dumb question, but we are trying something for a client using Azure SQL but haven't used SQL very much (we use to have a SQL expert on staff) ... so, which "version" would we use and load to maximize our Q&A scenario testing?
