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DebbieE
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2 years ago

PowerBI dataflow questions

I have been asked a few questions today about power BI dataflows and why you should use them.   namely how does it impact the data lake already set up ?   1. The Dataflow data is created in a 'bl...
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aj1973
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2 years ago

Hi DebbieE 

Creating a Dataflow is basically adding Entities(Tables) from one or multiple sources to it. The storage location of the Entities is ADLS(Azure Data Lake Storage). Once the Dataflow is created you will need Power BI desktop to connect it to it and to build the semantic model. From the semantic you can create one or more reports from Power BI desktop as well as from Power BI service when the semantic model is already published.

 

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    DebbieE
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    2 years ago

    thanks for that but its the specific points above  I need information on to be able to talk this one through