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hubix2000
New Member
10 years ago

PowerBI with Azure Data Lake Store

Hi,   we already run all our operations on Azure SQL databases. Now we are going to invest into Azure Data Lake Store and like to integrate it with PowerBI. Currently there is no external data sour...
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desertislesql
Most Valuable Professional
10 years ago

I found out that ir you are looking to use an Azure Data Lake as your data store, you cannot directly connect to it online. If you want to use an Azure Data Lake as a data source, you will need to use an ODBC data source in Power BI Desktop.

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gerardcuijpers
New Member
10 years ago

I managed to get data from a Data Late Store into PowerBI desktop, but not the way I would like it:

  • PowerBI Desktop, Version: 2.32.4307.641 64-bit (February 2016)
  • Get Data / Azure / Microsoft Azure Data Lake Store (Beta)
  • Provide the adl:// or swebhdfs:// path
  • It will show you a preview with columns like "content, name, extension, .."
  • Click on "Edit"
  • Click on the link "Binary" in the first column ("Content")
  • Now you can see the the data as it appears in the file itself.