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markdevries
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10 years ago
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Combining data sets in Power BI workspace

It's become clear to me that I cannot combine multiple tables to create a single report within the Power BI Service, that I must use BI Desktop instead, and then upload to BI Service.  So, my questio...
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    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Hi markdevries,

    You can compare the difference between Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service by reviewing this article.

    Since you want to combine data from multiple data sources, it is better to use Power BI Desktop to create reports and publish them to Service. Power BI Desktop provides advanced data exploration, shaping, modeling, and report creation comparing with Power BI Service.

    Thanks,
    Lydia Zhang



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Anonymous
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10 years ago

Hi markdevries,

You can compare the difference between Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service by reviewing this article.

Since you want to combine data from multiple data sources, it is better to use Power BI Desktop to create reports and publish them to Service. Power BI Desktop provides advanced data exploration, shaping, modeling, and report creation comparing with Power BI Service.

Thanks,
Lydia Zhang



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markdevries
New Member
10 years ago

Thank you very much, Lydia, for your advice and the link to that article!  I probably should have read that first before investing so much time and effort into Office 365.  I will continue to use Office 365, but more as a light-weight collaboration solution, rather than replacing our local desktop apps.  I was hopeful that the cloud solutions today were more mature than they are.  At least I have the kind of Office 365 subscription which provides local app software too.

Thanks!