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MP_123
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employeehow 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...
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
MP_123Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employeehi, thanks!
i understand that gateway is not required, but you mean to directQuery only right?
how it should be implemented with import data?
i'm using personal gateway and it works fine for now, but if my computer is off, then the refresh won't happen, right?
thanks!