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  • v-yulgu-msft's avatar
    v-yulgu-msft
    Microsoft Employee
    9 years ago

    Hi Pratima,

     

    In Power BI desktop, The File category provides the following data connections:

    • Excel
    • Text/CSV
    • XML
    • JSON
    • Folder
    • SharePoint Folder

     

    It doesn't support .dat file. As I know, DAT can be a text-based, video-based, an attachment, or some other kind of files. If your .dat file is text-based, I would suggest you convert it to text file, then, connect to this text file in Power BI desktop. But the data imported to Power BI might be unreadable.

     

    Regards,
    Yuliana Gu

    • Pratima's avatar
      Pratima
      Advocate II
      9 years ago

      Thanks dear for u r valuable comment ...i too did same ,but didnt get......

       

       

      Thanks,

      Pratima