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ivanw2304's avatar
ivanw2304
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6 years ago

Auto refresh dataset without gateway

Hi All,   I have create the dataset but when dataset want to refresh always need the local computer which hold the gateway must online. I check the dataset in PowerBi Desktop, all the data source n...
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Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
6 years ago
What, specifically, are the data sources? If you are using some custom ODBC connector to a FoxPro database, for example, it doesn't matter that the FoxPro database is sitting in Azure, for example, you would still need the gateway.
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ivanw2304
Frequent Visitor
6 years ago

Hi Greg,

 

Thanks you for ur comment. Yes I used MySql connector to AWS server so still need to have gateway ? The next question is can we put gateway into azure? or we must create virtual machine in azure just for PowerBI gateway?

 

Thanks