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Differences between the cloud connections for semantic models
Hey Neka ,
The biggest difference is the ability to share and the ablity to have other people use it. If you are the ONLY person that will EVER use it and if you leave the company then nobody else cares about it then leaving it as cloud is fine. Also, you may have to update the connection when you change your password.
If this is going to outlast you or is going to be used in more than one situation or by more than one report, then I would make it part of the gateway and data sources available to folks.
I’ve always thought it was a best practice for maximizing business continuity to always create a connection and use shared connections.
Hi andrewsommer ,
Yes, that is correct - using a shared connection is the best way to go. That is why I stated that if you were the only person ever to do it then you wouldn't need to, otherwise always make it a shared Data Source connection on your Gateway.