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What are the limitations of scheduled refresh in Power BI when connecting to Snowflake?
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Hi,lbendlin ,thanks for your concern about this issue.
Your answer is excellent!
And I would like to share some additional solutions below.
Hello,@manoj_0911 . I am glad to help you.
There seems no special restrictions on configuring Scheduled Refresh for Snowflake data sources on the power BI Service, similar to other general databases, however, for authentication, Snowflake data sources support authentication using Microsoft Entra IDs, and of course, you can also use Windows/Oauth2 for authentication.
Here are some related articles about power BI Service connection to Snowflake.I hope it will help you.
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Connect to Snowflake with Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
How to Connect Snowflake to Power BI: Full Integration Guide (coefficient.io)
I hope my suggestions give you good ideas, if you have any more questions, please clarify in a follow-up reply.
Best Regards,
Carson Jian,
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Hi,lbendlin ,thanks for your concern about this issue.
Your answer is excellent!
And I would like to share some additional solutions below.
Hello,@manoj_0911 . I am glad to help you.
There seems no special restrictions on configuring Scheduled Refresh for Snowflake data sources on the power BI Service, similar to other general databases, however, for authentication, Snowflake data sources support authentication using Microsoft Entra IDs, and of course, you can also use Windows/Oauth2 for authentication.
Here are some related articles about power BI Service connection to Snowflake.I hope it will help you.
URL:
Connect to Snowflake with Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
How to Connect Snowflake to Power BI: Full Integration Guide (coefficient.io)
I hope my suggestions give you good ideas, if you have any more questions, please clarify in a follow-up reply.
Best Regards,
Carson Jian,
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
You can only refresh the entire semantic model.
With API based refreshes you can be more specific and refresh tables or partitions.
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