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Datamart
- 3 years ago
I was always intrigued (and appalled) by the concept of Direct Query access to Dataflows. Maybe that is what Datamarts are. That would explain why that "Do you want to create a Datamart instead" question keeps coming up.
Thank you for your answer.
I checked now if I can create something (table, view) in the SQL server database of a datamart via Azure Studio or SSMS. This does not work and is consistent with your explanation. So I would characterize it roughly as a "read only SQL database with a Power BI front end for reporting in a specific domain". Someone can correct me if this working definition is too narrow.
The MS documentation says:
Use datamarts when you need to:
- Sort, filter, do simple aggregation visually or through expressions defined in SQL
- For outputs that are results, sets, tables, and filtered tables of data
- Provide accessible data through a SQL endpoint
- Enable users who don’t have access to Power BI Desktop
Best regards
Christian
I was always intrigued (and appalled) by the concept of Direct Query access to Dataflows. Maybe that is what Datamarts are. That would explain why that "Do you want to create a Datamart instead" question keeps coming up.