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Q&A with Azure SQL?
OMG ... "perhaps" I just got lucky after Bing searching for 2 hours !!!
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaevans/archive/2015/03/06/adventure-works-for-azure-sql-database.aspx
Use Excel or Power BI Desktop. Connect to your Azure SQL data and pull it into your model. Upload XLSX or PBIX file to Power BI Service. Q&A away.
Super, thank you ... I will try that ... in order to use Q&A (we have only used the sample data set so far) is there any methodology to the way the SQL data is "structured or named"?
For example, we'd like to load the old "Adventure Works Bicycle Factory sample dataset" - or are there better SQL datasets that are structured for Q&A?
Forgive the dumb question, but we are trying something for a client using Azure SQL but haven't used SQL very much (we use to have a SQL expert on staff) ... so, which "version" would we use and load to maximize our Q&A scenario testing?
Actually ... which one of these into Power BI Desktop?
For Azure SQL DB, you are going to need one of the script files, which I generally have not used. I would recommend going with the OLTP script and/or the DW script, the first two after recommended downloads. And I have no idea if those scripts contain the data. I have generally used the full backups because those are the easiest to get up and running quickly but that is for an actual SQL Server.