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rollo
8 years agoFrequent Visitor
Refresh Data Power bi Service
I have created some reports in Power BI Desktop (that connect to a MYSQL database in the cloud) and published them to the Power BI Service. The refresh routine on the Desktop application works perfe...
rollo
8 years agoFrequent Visitor
Hi RMDNA Sorry for the delay in responding but I have been waiting on a Skype call from a Power BI consultant that never materialised. I did in fact read these notes incorrectly (Apologies) but I am still no wiser how to connect Power BI Service to cloud based databases. It seems to me that the only databases you can get dat for on Power BI serviceuse are the Microsoft ones like Azure (Which mine aren;t). The way I understand it is that gateways are only for On-Premises sources, so in my reasoning, that isn't the solution. Any other comments would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Rollo
v-yulgu-msft
8 years agoMicrosoft Employee