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virtuej
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11 years ago
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Is there a migration path between Power BI Designer file and a Tabular instance?

Power BI Designer saves a PBIX file type.  I wanted to see if the Data Model in Designer can be imported into SQL Server Tabular instance.  This is similar to Excel and Visual Studio where we can mig...
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    Arieln
    11 years ago

    There is no automatic upgrade from the Designer to ATabular for number of reasons that involves updateing the AS server (we are using new functionallity that your AS Server cant support at this point).

     

    At this point, I cant share when it will change. I encourage you placing suggestion in uservoice.

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JenUnderwood
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11 years ago

Great minds think alike Andre!  This scenario is indeed on the radar.  Interestingly, I tried the exact same thing and I was not able to restore the Power BI Designer data model file to SSAS Tabular 2014. **IF** it did work, it would not be an officially supported upgrade path right now.

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andre
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11 years ago

Jen, do you happen to know what CTP of SQL 16 would be Designer compatible?