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jPinhao's avatar
jPinhao
Advocate II
9 years ago

Direct Query Source in Import Data mode - Pro licence?

We've just changed how our Power BI service acquires data, and it's now directly connected to an Azure SQL Database. Now when I try to access it in teh portal I get a notice saying something along the lines "This report contains Power BI PRO content" - we don't have PRO licences, so we can't properly use the portal.

 

I looked up the Pro definition, and the first line is:

* Data from a DirectQuery dataset, such as SQL Server Analysis Services tabular data, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, or Apache Spark for HDInsight

 

We are using an Azure SQL Database, but we're not actually using DirectQuery, we are importing the data into the report. Should this still require a Pro licence, or am I missing something?  

 

If the content is indeed intended to be Pro even if the data loading method is 'Import', what other options do I have? Would Azure Table Storage also require a Pro licence? Would it be slower to load the report using it? 

 

EDIT: It seems that if I turn off a scheduled daily refresh, the Pro notice goes away. However that same page says you only need a Pro licence to schedule hourly refreshes - Daily seems fine. The notes in the Power BI Pro page also seems to point that daily refreshes are fine. I have done a couple of manual refreshes in the last 24h for testing purposes, but I don't imagine this would be the issue.

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4 Replies

  • v-qiuyu-msft's avatar
    v-qiuyu-msft
    Community Support
    9 years ago

    Hi jPinhao,

     

    In Power BI, get data from Azure SQL database doesn't require Pro license. But if you want to refresh this dataset frequently more than daily, it requires Pro license. Please refer to this article: Data refresh by subscription type.

     

    Best Regards,
    Qiuyun Yu

    • jPinhao's avatar
      jPinhao
      Advocate II
      9 years ago

      Thanks v-qiuyu-msft, this is what I thought. How come I'm seeing this Pro notice then? If I turn off the daily refresh everything is good, but with it enabled the report won't load.

       

      This is a slight inconvenience as it means I have to go to the portal and hit refresh myself every morning.

       

       

      That is how I have set-up the refresh. As you can see it is a pretty standard daily refresh, not more than daily, and yet the service seems to think the dataset has Pro content :(

      • v-qiuyu-msft's avatar
        v-qiuyu-msft
        Community Support
        9 years ago

        Hi jPinhao,

         

        Please double check based on this article to verify this report doesn't contain any Pro content.

         

        Did you connect to another data source in this report? Based on my test, if use one query connect to the Azure SQL database in Import mode without any RLS enabled, after publish to the service and enable schedule refresh, report can be loaded fine. Would you please share the detail steps for our analysis?

         

        Best Regards,
        Qiuyun Yu