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MP_123
10 years agoMicrosoft Employee
auto refresh
hi, i have two questions about data refresh first of all - if i publish report\dashboard with direct query, does it mean that auto refresh occures? second - if i'm doing extract connection, is ...
ankitpatira
10 years agoCommunity Champion
MP_123 DirectQuery is a mechanism for PowerBI.com to connect to your on-prem data source where data is not imported into PowerBI. Therefore using DirectQuery means if your on-prem data source gets updated you will see it reflected in your report in PowerBI.com. However for that to work once your report is published you have to enable DirectQuery via enterprise gateway.