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7 years ago

Connect Power BI to Google Big Query Issue

I have an issue when i try to connect to Google Big Query. We have a number of projects set up in Big Query, the proect I need to access is "Project 1". However Power BI requires that i have EDIT Rea...
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v-piga-msft
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7 years ago

Hi Anonymous，

 

Did you connect the data with Google Big Query connector? What about using ODBC connector?

 

You could have a reference of this blog to create a ODBC data source for BigQuery, then use ODBC connector in Power BI Desktop and write SQL statement in the connector to check if you can successfully import data from the shared dataset.

 

Best Regards,

Cherry

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    Anonymous
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    7 years ago

    Hi, yes I used the Google Big Query connector. Do you have any advice how I configure the ODBC connector? Apologies I'm a newbie and used to Tableau connecting to Google Big Query using the native connector. Thanks

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      v-piga-msft
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      7 years ago

      Hi Anonymous,

       

      You could have a good look at this article and the video.

       

      Best  Regards,

      Cherry