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Anonymous
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Connect to Data Lake Gen2

Hi, I am building a dashboard, which is required to connect to DataLake Gen2.

I didn't use this as a data source before, may I seek some advice what will be the pros and cons for this connector?

And anything that should be awared of?

 

Thanks

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Anonymous
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@amitchandak thanks for the vedio. It is helpful.

Whereas, do you think there will be any limitation when connecting BI to datalake comparing with SQLdb?

I only found that Direct query is not applicable with Datalake.

And seemingly, the refresh time seems longer?

amitchandak
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@Anonymous , refer if my video can help on that

Power BI - Azure Free Tier, Create Azure Data Lake Gen 2 and connect that in Power BI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_hxpTgMAC0

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