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Anonymous
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11 years ago
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Images/binary in Power BI Desktop ?

I have made a simple data model with a query joining 2 tables from a SQL Server. The first table holds countries and the other holds an image for each country. But the image column is NOT present whe...
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    JenUnderwood
    11 years ago

    Support for binary data type display is not yet available in Power BI Desktop. 

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Anonymous
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10 years ago

Have anyone been able to sorted this out? I am trying to display images from a SQL Table where images are stored as binary. When I bring the data in to my data model, I can see the field with the data, when trying to select it from the report section, it is not available. I tried the option of combining ... but not sure how it works ... 

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mysorian
Helper I
8 years ago

I have not succeded in Power BI, yet. I did display the images (binary bmp in SQL tables) in Reporting Services and I am not a similar trick works in Power BI. I have not tried it yet.