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Dataflow from a database in Power Bi Service
Hello! Is it possible to grab measures/tables from a Database (in Power BI Service) and create a Dataflow? The purpose of this is to be able to use this same measures/tables in other databa...
Hi ddesa,
Technically, I believe that you could do this. One of the purposes for a dataflow is to connect to data from multiple sources and to clean and transform the data and then the dataset is built out of the dataflow process.
Therefore, my answer would be that the more common method for being able to re-use measures and columns is to create a dataset within Power BI that you use in other reports. This makes life a bit more efficient when you know that you are going to be using the same measures/columns in multiple places (and perhaps by multiple people) because you have a central location for all the measures in one dataset.