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saileekumawat88
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Advanced Editor - Databricks as source

‎08-16-2018 12:54 PM

Hi, 

 

I am having trouble in connecting to Databricks from power BI using import option. I want to know a way with databricks as a source how can write custom SQL to import few columns and summarize it before getting it to power BI . 

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‎08-17-2018 03:00 AM

Hi @saileekumawat88,

 

Based on research, it looks like connecting to Azure Databricks via Spark connector is the only way right now. For this option, it is not supported to write custom code to filter or summarize dataset before loading to Power BI desktop.

 

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Yuliana Gu

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