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Anonymous
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7 years ago
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App with Excel connection and SQL tables

I had simple app that connected to an excel file from a OneDrive location and it refreshed on the Power BI service fine. Then I add another another table via a SQL server connection. After I did this the refresh failed. Can I not have two separate connections in the Cloud refresh? Should I be able to do this?

 

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  • parry2k's avatar
    parry2k
    7 years ago

    Anonymous you can surely do that. Is your sql server on-prem or in cloud? If it is on-prem, you need powerbi data gateway to get this going? Let me know if need more help.

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  • parry2k's avatar
    parry2k
    Super User
    7 years ago

    Anonymous you can surely do that. Is your sql server on-prem or in cloud? If it is on-prem, you need powerbi data gateway to get this going? Let me know if need more help.

    • v-frfei-msft's avatar
      v-frfei-msft
      Community Support
      7 years ago

      Hi Anonymous,

       

      Did you connect to the On-prem Sql server database?  Then as parry2k said you should install and configure on-prem gateway to refresh the dataset. For more details, please check the online document.

       

      Regards,

      Frank

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      7 years ago

      Thanks!