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4 years ago

Power BI Service: Data Gateway: Connection Error: Unable to connect to data source {0}

Hello All, I'm a new to Power BI and learning through the courses available with Udemy. I was trying to create a dataflow in Power BI Service. For the same I have downloaded and configured On Premis...
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lbendlin
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4 years ago

Please provide more details - is this a personal gateway or an enterprise/standard gateway?  Generally you don't want to put data sources on your PC because a standard gateway doesn't know how to get to these files (especially when your PC is switched off 🙂  )

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4 years ago

Its a standard gateway. Yes, I agree to that, but this is for practice purpose. Once I get it I know that it would be some DB on some on-prem/cloud server.

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    lbendlin
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    4 years ago

    These data sources are not comparable. Test it with "some DB on some on-prem/cloud server." . Note that "some" cloud servers do not require gateways if they are visible to the Azure service.