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Ghislain
Advocate I
9 years ago
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Can we get data from 2 different databases?

Hello PowerBI community !   I have an interrogation today, I want to know if we can get data from 2 different databases. For example if i have 2 Sql server database from 2 different companies. Is i...
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    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Ghislain Provided that you use "Import" - yes, you can source data from multiple SQL Servers with different credentials.

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jayaxe
Advocate I
2 years ago

Hi I'm facing another situation whereby I have 2 different SQL servers (by external IT vendors) and I need to install a gateway each in order to access and automatically refresh the data. I have tried to upload such a Power BI to service but there is an error saying "You do not have a gateway installed". 

 

So can i say it's not possible to use 2 gateways? Or is there a workaround to it?