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Conne ting PowerBI to Azure MYSQL Database
Hi I have a report which connects to an Azure MySQL database. This works fine within Desktop but when i publish it to the Power BI Service do i need an On Premise Data Gateway installed to refres...
You generally do not need an on-prem data gateway for cloud sources.
From this previous post:
If you are connecting to a SQL Server that hosted in Azure VM but not Azure SQL database. For the former, gateway is required, you should install gateway on the same machine, then add SQL Server data source within the gateway. For Azure SQL database, gateway is not required.
AlexisOlson
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Super UserYou generally do not need an on-prem data gateway for cloud sources.
From this previous post:
If you are connecting to a SQL Server that hosted in Azure VM but not Azure SQL database. For the former, gateway is required, you should install gateway on the same machine, then add SQL Server data source within the gateway. For Azure SQL database, gateway is not required.