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How safe is it to store Credentials in Power Query
Hi All, My main question is this: - If I hardcode an encoded username + password in a Power Query step and publish that to the Power BI Service. Will that information be accessible to anyone el...
If someone has access to the Power BI workspace you publish the report to, they can download the PBIX from the Service and open it up and look at the query text (assuming they have a minimum of Write access to the dataset or are a Contributor to the workspace).
If they don't have access to the PBIX file, then I can't think of a way to access that query text but that doesn't mean it's not possible and I generally wouldn't advise storing unencrypted credentials in a query.