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BindiyaThota
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Understand ContentProviderType

Hi,

I am trying to understand various "ContentProviderType" for datasets (few listed below), what each of them mean especially sets (1, 2, 3) & (4, 5, 6) where the latter set is prefixed with 'Pbix'.

  1. InCompositeMode
  2. InDirectQueryMode
  3. InImportMode
  4. PbixInCompositeMode
  5. PbixInDirectQueryMode
  6. PbixInImportMode
  7. RealTimeInPushMode
  8. RealTimeInStreamingMode
  9. Unknown
  10. UsageMetricsUserReport
  11. etc

I referred below links but they don't help me. They only have a one-liner (see below) and does not explain the above list in detail.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/datasets/get-datasets

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/admin/datasets-get-datasets-as-admin

ContentProviderType

string

The content provider type for the dataset

 

Can anyone share any other links where each 'ContentProviderType' is thoroughly explained? 

 

Thanks!

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lbendlin
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lbendlin
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Awesome, thank you! I will take copilots help to understand other types too.

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