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MP_123
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10 years ago
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how to set a gateway

hi all,   i want to set a gateway to my reports and actually i don't really understand from the power bi site how to do it. now my reports are connected with the default gateway - which is my mach...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    MP_123 You don't need a gateway when importing. You would just need to set up a schedule for refresh. Check out this page for all the refresh scenerios.

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v-micsh-msft
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10 years ago

Hi MP_123,

 

Gateway is used to connect the Data source that hosted locally.

For the Databases in the cloud, a gateway is not required. The only thing that should be done here is to configure the connection, specify the database address and the credentials, check:

Exploring Azure SQL Data Warehouse with Power BI

And:

Use Power BI with SQL Data Warehouse

If any further help needed, please feel free to post back.

Regards