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Question with qatways and data sources
1. Based on the following page, are SQL Server data sources always considered on-premise data sources? Even when sql server is hosted on an azure VM that has a public IP address and is directly acc...
To add to #1. The difference between VM's hosted in Azure and using Azure SQL Database is that they are completely different products. When you spin up a VM in Azure this is an Iaas (Infrastructure as a service) and is considered by Power BI to be on-prem and requires a personal gateway connector. When you use Azure Sql Database this is a Paas (Platform as a Service) and is considered by Power BI as a live connection and does not require any connector to be downloaded.