Digitalocean Refresh Data without gateway

Hi Anonymous ,

Maybe you save your files on your local drive or a drive somewhere in your organization. You may need a Power BI gateway so that you can refresh the dataset in Power BI. The computer that stores the file needs to be on when a refresh happens. You can reimport your file or use Publish from Excel or Power BI Desktop, but those options aren't automated processes.

It seems that your data source is MySQL:

According to my knowledge, Power BI does not support connect to this type of data source directly. If you want to refresh your data, you still need gateway to connect to your data source.

For more details, please refer to:

Data sources for Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

Data refresh in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

Best Regards,

Jianbo Li

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