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Anonymous
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Power BI migration/Gateway

Good day all

 

I am doing a current migration for Power BI reports.

 

I have set up a test environment and duplicated the Clients environment.

I downloaded sample reports and published the it to Power BI and set up a connection

 

- Connect a SQL server to the Data source

 

My issue here is the reports are not connected and not able to refresh, do I edit the server and database details for each report in PBI Desktop?

 

The data source connects to SQL but my reports still have erros 

 

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lbendlin
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Both of your data sources are "bad".

One is located on someone's computer hard drive. Move that file to a sharepoint or OneDrive.

The other data source expects the SQL server to be on the same machine as the gateway.  That is not recommended for a variety of reasons ( massive performance impact, and unsuitable for gateway clusters). Change that onnection to point to a proper separate SQL server.

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