Datamart SQL Queries

[Rob-Sims-99]

Hi there,

Ok, so I may be missing a fundamental here, but here goes...

Where I work it's policy not to allow SSMS outside of the IT Department, so imagine my unbridled joy when I found datamarts supported an online SQL editor, however, all I can see what you can do with these is export the results of your query into Excel... Does anyone know whether you're able to ingest the sql queries using Power BI Desktop?

Thanks,

Rob.

[rdnguyen · Accepted solution]

@Rob-Sims-99 

If you utilize Datamart, data is no longer fresh, but be imported from original datasource to sit inside Datamart waiting. Why would you try to use Direct Query in this scenario, but not import from a prepared table transform inside Datamart or within Power BI Desktop?

Regarding your question, you can only find the option for Direct Query but no option for the advanced options to ingest SQL query from the very begining, but a walk a bit further (I believe Datamart will have it eventually)

from Power BI Desktop > Datahub > Datamart > Connect to SQL Endpoint > Navigator > 

Then go to Power Query Editor, edit the Source where you should see this button next to

Click to edit Source, so you could see