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johnmelbourne
Helper V
6 years ago

Connect to off-premises external vendor SQL database

Hi, We have an external vendor providing a database solution and I want to connect to it via Power BI. Can someone direct me to some resources as I am having issues and most help refers to connectin...
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johnmelbourne
Helper V
6 years ago

Thanks, I already have a configrued gateway that is connecting to the external database. I think getting them to create a pbix locally and then me uploading to the service is the way forward.

 

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v-kelly-msft
Community Support
6 years ago

Hi johnmelbourne ,

 

Yes,when you get the .pbix file,modify the data source credential,which should be same with the setting in gateway.See below:

 

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Kelly
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