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Good day, I recently did some research on creating a live connection in Power BI and came across a good source.
Source: https://youtu.be/YI6ey8EvIAI
This was beneficial to me as I am fairly new in Power BI and the data I was working with was on sharepoint in an excel file.
What other methods can one implement to create a live connection to a data source irrelevant of it being on sharepoint?
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Hi @Khayo,
You can use Direct Query to connect to any database online. Here's a link for your reference:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/desktop-use-directquery
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Check out this blog of mine: How to Export Telemetry Data from Azure IoT Central into Power BI
Hi @Khayo,
You can use Direct Query to connect to any database online. Here's a link for your reference:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/desktop-use-directquery
Did I answer your question? Mark this post as a solution if I did!
Check out this blog of mine: How to Export Telemetry Data from Azure IoT Central into Power BI
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