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Automatically Refreshing with Data from a SQL View in Excel

‎02-21-2020 11:15 AM

Hi:

If you have a SQL view in Excel and if the Excel spreadsheet is the data source for Power BI, is it possible to refresh the dataset without having to refresh the actual spreadsheet and if so how?

Thanks!

 

John

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Greg_Deckler
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‎02-21-2020 01:02 PM

I do not believe so, why would you not just refresh directly from the SQL view?



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‎02-21-2020 01:16 PM

It's preferable to have Power BI refresh the data for the report, rather than having to go to Excel to refresh the data.

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