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OneWithQuestion
8 years agoPost Prodigy
Pass username as filter or parameter in query using DirectQuery to SQL?
Is there anyway to pass UserName() or userPrincipalName() as a query parameter when doing direct query? For example, if I want to direct query on today's sales I can handle queries like getting t...
OneWithQuestion
8 years agoPost Prodigy
I was hoping to find a way to pass it into SQL as a parameter, I looked at using M but I didn't see any options for passing usernames that way (rather I didn't see a username function for M).
Ideally, I would be able to do a SELECT Col1, Col2, Col3 FROM Table1 WHERE Table1.Username=username()
(from PBI of course) however, I don't see anyway to pass system variables/parameters into queries.
I wanted to filter them BEFORE they are loaded, so if my table had 1 million records, I would much rather return only the records that matched UserName() instead of the entire table.
angelikamariae
7 years agoHelper I
Hi
Did you find the answer for this? I have exactly the same issue.
thanks.
A.