Skip to main content
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

The Power BI DataViz World Championships are on! With four chances to enter, you could win a spot in the LIVE Grand Finale in Las Vegas. Show off your skills.

Reply
CloudMonkey
Post Prodigy
Post Prodigy

Power BI databases in two departments

Hi,

 

Please can you tell me how to link Power BI databases between 2 different departments? (e.g. the sales data is compiled in a finance department Power BI database and then a marketing database somehow receives this information as a table in their own database)

 

Currently the marketing department has to manually log into the finance department database, export a table visualisation to excel and then save the excel file in their own Power BI database.

 

Thanks,

 

CM

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION
v-shex-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @CloudMonkey,

 

In my opinion, you can import these databases to same power bi report, then create a transfer table to link two different source.(if current not contains these tables)

 

For example:
database 1: 'Item A','Item B'
database 2: 'item a','item b'

 

Transfer table:

 

Index, Desc A, Desc B
1, 'Item A','item a'
2, 'Item B','item b'

 

After finish create above transfer table, you can use it to link two database.(relationships: 'Desc A 'to database AND tables, 'Desc B' to database B tables)

 

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

 

Community Support Team _ Xiaoxin
If this post helps, please consider accept as solution to help other members find it more quickly.

View solution in original post

1 REPLY 1
v-shex-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @CloudMonkey,

 

In my opinion, you can import these databases to same power bi report, then create a transfer table to link two different source.(if current not contains these tables)

 

For example:
database 1: 'Item A','Item B'
database 2: 'item a','item b'

 

Transfer table:

 

Index, Desc A, Desc B
1, 'Item A','item a'
2, 'Item B','item b'

 

After finish create above transfer table, you can use it to link two database.(relationships: 'Desc A 'to database AND tables, 'Desc B' to database B tables)

 

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

 

Community Support Team _ Xiaoxin
If this post helps, please consider accept as solution to help other members find it more quickly.

Helpful resources

Announcements
Las Vegas 2025

Join us at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference

March 31 - April 2, 2025, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Use code MSCUST for a $150 discount!

Feb2025 Sticker Challenge

Join our Community Sticker Challenge 2025

If you love stickers, then you will definitely want to check out our Community Sticker Challenge!

Feb2025 NL Carousel

Fabric Community Update - February 2025

Find out what's new and trending in the Fabric community.