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hi
i am new to power bi?
can any one please help me what are databases mostly used for developing power bi reports?
where u get data for developing reports?
thanks in advance
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You can receive a free account in Azure portal to have ability to use any resource/application for a month. They will give you 200$ to spend on anything you want there. Refer to this link - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/. Once you want to use another db or resource you can remove previous one.
There is ability to use database with sample data (AdventureWorks). Look at screenshot below
Hi @annapurna,
As Power BI is Microsoft solution people mostly use it in combination with:
#1 and #2 are on-premises, #3 and #4 are cloud solutions (new trend now).
Less using are:
In case you want to have testing data please download sample databases from internet. Search "AdventureWorks database" (any version) for SQL Server/Azure SQL. For instance this link - https://github.com/Microsoft/sql-server-samples/releases/tag/adventureworks
You can receive a free account in Azure portal to have ability to use any resource/application for a month. They will give you 200$ to spend on anything you want there. Refer to this link - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/. Once you want to use another db or resource you can remove previous one.
There is ability to use database with sample data (AdventureWorks). Look at screenshot below
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