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ccaswell
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Is it possible to connect to a .BAK file?

‎05-04-2017 05:21 AM

Can a .Bak file be connected to in Power BI?

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‎05-04-2017 08:00 AM

Assuming this is SQL Server .BAK files, just restore the .bak files to any SQL Server and use that. You could also take it a step further and just use the SQL Server as an intermediary and create bacpac files of them so that you can run the SQL Server using something low cost like Azure SQL DB.

 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12057661/converting-sql-bak-to-sql-backpac-format

 



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‎05-04-2017 06:54 AM

Not to my knowledge, no.



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‎05-04-2017 07:55 AM

What would be needed to utilise the .Bak files in Power Bi?

We don't have access to the real tables...just .bak files fro mthe previous night.

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‎05-04-2017 08:00 AM

Assuming this is SQL Server .BAK files, just restore the .bak files to any SQL Server and use that. You could also take it a step further and just use the SQL Server as an intermediary and create bacpac files of them so that you can run the SQL Server using something low cost like Azure SQL DB.

 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12057661/converting-sql-bak-to-sql-backpac-format

 



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