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Devine's avatar
Devine
New Member
10 years ago

Problems with Get Data and Recent Sources

When working with different data sources or source queries, this setup seems a little strange.  First off, does Recent Sources store all of the data sources I've used, and do these work cross project...
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Greg_Deckler's avatar
Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
10 years ago

This is posted in Service, are you referring to Power BI Desktop? If so, Recent Sources are cross PBIX files and only includes distinct data sources, not queries. Queries are not data sources. Not sure how "recent", recent is...

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Devine
New Member
10 years ago

Correct, this is Power BI Desktop.  And as far as Recent Sources not containing queries becuase they're not "sources"... true.  But I would still like a way to save these source queries for later use, and right now I'm not seeing a way to do that.

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    mgswanie
    Regular Visitor
    9 years ago

    Something is wrong!  I am a novice with Power BI but when I click on Recent Sources I get <server name>:<database name> 8 times. Each one with a different query.

    My question is how do I delete Data Sources in Recent Sources?

    But the issue is still there. I have queries, why did you say queries are not there?