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v-dabatc
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10 years ago
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Database change leads to Switching to Import Mode

We have a set of reports that feed from an Azure SQL database, which I'll refer to as the "test" database.  The reports are using DirectQuery.  We'd like to instead have these same reports read from ...
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    pqian
    10 years ago

    v-dabatc we are aware of this scenario and is actively working on a feature that will help you migrate the report to a different data source.

     

    Since DirectQuery currently has a limitation on single data source, you cannot mix test and prod servers in one report. Instead, once you finished building your report against the test instance, you can click Edit Queries and edit the Source step for each of the queries to change the server to a new one.

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pqian
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10 years ago

v-dabatc we are aware of this scenario and is actively working on a feature that will help you migrate the report to a different data source.

 

Since DirectQuery currently has a limitation on single data source, you cannot mix test and prod servers in one report. Instead, once you finished building your report against the test instance, you can click Edit Queries and edit the Source step for each of the queries to change the server to a new one.

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pqian
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10 years ago

I should add that you must change ALL loaded queries at once. In other words, there cannot be two data source instances loaded into a DirectQuery model