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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
@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?
@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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