Use SQL Store Procedure in Power BI

vineetmodiZak2815anakoom Letting the cat out of the bag a little early here as I'm going to write up a blog around this, but rather than use a stored procedure you can use a Table Valued Function. This function allows for input parameters to be passed in. For example: if I were to query the AdventureWorks2014 database and a function in there looks like this:

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[ufnGetContactInformation](@PersonID int)
RETURNS @retContactInformation TABLE 
(
    -- Columns returned by the function
    [PersonID] int NOT NULL, 
    [FirstName] [nvarchar](50) NULL, 
    [LastName] [nvarchar](50) NULL, 
	[JobTitle] [nvarchar](50) NULL,
    [BusinessEntityType] [nvarchar](50) NULL
)
AS 
-- Returns the first name, last name, job title and business entity type for the specified contact.
-- Since a contact can serve multiple roles, more than one row may be returned.
BEGIN
	IF @PersonID IS NOT NULL 
		BEGIN
		IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM [HumanResources].[Employee] e 
					WHERE e.[BusinessEntityID] = @PersonID) 
			INSERT INTO @retContactInformation
				SELECT @PersonID, p.FirstName, p.LastName, e.[JobTitle], 'Employee'
				FROM [HumanResources].[Employee] AS e
					INNER JOIN [Person].[Person] p
					ON p.[BusinessEntityID] = e.[BusinessEntityID]
				WHERE e.[BusinessEntityID] = @PersonID;

		IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM [Purchasing].[Vendor] AS v
					INNER JOIN [Person].[BusinessEntityContact] bec 
					ON bec.[BusinessEntityID] = v.[BusinessEntityID]
					WHERE bec.[PersonID] = @PersonID)
			INSERT INTO @retContactInformation
				SELECT @PersonID, p.FirstName, p.LastName, ct.[Name], 'Vendor Contact' 
				FROM [Purchasing].[Vendor] AS v
					INNER JOIN [Person].[BusinessEntityContact] bec 
					ON bec.[BusinessEntityID] = v.[BusinessEntityID]
					INNER JOIN [Person].ContactType ct
					ON ct.[ContactTypeID] = bec.[ContactTypeID]
					INNER JOIN [Person].[Person] p
					ON p.[BusinessEntityID] = bec.[PersonID]
				WHERE bec.[PersonID] = @PersonID;
		
		IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM [Sales].[Store] AS s
					INNER JOIN [Person].[BusinessEntityContact] bec 
					ON bec.[BusinessEntityID] = s.[BusinessEntityID]
					WHERE bec.[PersonID] = @PersonID)
			INSERT INTO @retContactInformation
				SELECT @PersonID, p.FirstName, p.LastName, ct.[Name], 'Store Contact' 
				FROM [Sales].[Store] AS s
					INNER JOIN [Person].[BusinessEntityContact] bec 
					ON bec.[BusinessEntityID] = s.[BusinessEntityID]
					INNER JOIN [Person].ContactType ct
					ON ct.[ContactTypeID] = bec.[ContactTypeID]
					INNER JOIN [Person].[Person] p
					ON p.[BusinessEntityID] = bec.[PersonID]
				WHERE bec.[PersonID] = @PersonID;

		IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM [Person].[Person] AS p
					INNER JOIN [Sales].[Customer] AS c
					ON c.[PersonID] = p.[BusinessEntityID]
					WHERE p.[BusinessEntityID] = @PersonID AND c.[StoreID] IS NULL) 
			INSERT INTO @retContactInformation
				SELECT @PersonID, p.FirstName, p.LastName, NULL, 'Consumer' 
				FROM [Person].[Person] AS p
					INNER JOIN [Sales].[Customer] AS c
					ON c.[PersonID] = p.[BusinessEntityID]
					WHERE p.[BusinessEntityID] = @PersonID AND c.[StoreID] IS NULL; 
		END

	RETURN;
END;

In my advanced options - SQL Query in Power BI I can call it just executing the select like this:

select * from [dbo].[ufnGetContactInformation]  (73)

and the output is returned as expected. This also allows you to do any CTE's or temp tables within the function.