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Inserting streaming data into a static table
Hello Community ,
I have a requirement where i am using an api and it gives me a data of current date. What i was thinking that is there a way that i can insert these rows into a table .it's like copying the data of a streaming table and inserting/appending it to a static table.
For example my api gives me a current day data and it comes to the streaming table and then i will send this data to my static table, Next day the api triggers again and truncate my streaming table and inserts that day's data and i want it to append in my static table so that i can have 2 days of data and so on.
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That is not the way powerbi works "normally", you can't have streaming data "pushed in".
You can however use streaming dataset: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-real-time-streamingwhich however is a entirely differnet application and does not involve PowerBI Desktop
It's a difficult scenario to work in a direct connection API->PowerBi. You probably need a layer in between to store this data in a database and then read all the rows in PBI.
Remember that PBI works (typically) in "full load" everytime. You can't have "here is a piece of the new data, keep the old and add this". I've never used them but maybe dataflows might help you.