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afkl99
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Reading data from a .exe

‎08-08-2017 08:31 PM

Hi, 

 

I would like to read in data from a .exe and am not sure how to go about doing so, any suggestions? 

 

 

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Eric_Zhang
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‎08-29-2017 06:31 PM
@afkl99 wrote:

Hi, 

 

I would like to read in data from a .exe and am not sure how to go about doing so, any suggestions? 

 

 

@afkl99

I don't think Power BI can read data directly from a .exe. You'll find out what is the underlying datasource(database, file?) of the .exe and connect to the datasource from Power BI.

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Eric_Zhang
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‎08-29-2017 06:31 PM
@afkl99 wrote:

Hi, 

 

I would like to read in data from a .exe and am not sure how to go about doing so, any suggestions? 

 

 

@afkl99

I don't think Power BI can read data directly from a .exe. You'll find out what is the underlying datasource(database, file?) of the .exe and connect to the datasource from Power BI.

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