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Power BI Reports Origin
We have a workspace that has many different Power BI reports in it but I am trying to figure out how to know where the location is of the power bi file that a repor is linked to. We generally have on...
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Community SupportHi Anonymous
Do you mean you'd like to know the location of the dataset? For Power BI service, the data from the file is stored on Azure. The Power BI service is built on Azure, which is Microsoft’s cloud computing infrastructure and platform. More details, please review this blog.
In Power BI service, if you are referencing SQL Azure DB, then you don't need a gateway. If it is on-premises, then you do. In both these cases, if you change the connection type to "import" model- then the data will be stored in the Power BI Azure backend. If you get data using a live connection, no data is stored in the cloud, just some caching.