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grajee
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Cloud Data Sources and Data Gateway

All,

 

What are the reason behind using a Data Gateway for connecting to a database on Azure SQL PaaS? I understand that it is needed to connect to On-Prem database.

 

The documentation is not clear and ambigous. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

rgn

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v-lili6-msft
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hi, @grajee 

If the data source are in this list, you need to use a gateway for it.

Data source
Amazon Redshift
AtScale cubes
Azure Active Directory
Analysis Services
Azure Blob storage
Azure DevOps Server
Azure Table storage
BI Connector
Denodo
Dremio
EmigoDataSourceConnector
Essbase
Exasol
File
Folder
Paxata
IBM DB2
IBM Informix Database
IBM Netezza
Impala
Jethro ODBC
Kyligence Enterprise
MarkLogic ODBC
Microsoft Graph Security
MySQL
ODBC
OData
OLE DB
Oracle
PostgreSQL
QubolePresto
Quick Base Connector
SAP Business Warehouse Message Server
SAP Business Warehouse Server
SAP HANA
SQL Server
SharePoint
Snowflake
Spark
SurveyMonkey
Sybase
TeamDesk.Database
Teradata
Vertica
Web
Workforce Dimensions

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-gateway-data-sources#list-of-available-data-source...

 

Best Regards,

Lin

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