Cannot use Direct Query Data Set on Power BI online - powerbi

I'm trying to use the Direct Query feature in Power BI
It is working on Power BI Desktop, but when I publish it to Power BI online, it gives the error below.
The source database is Azure SQL Database with pricing tier Standard S0: 10 DTUs.
The Power BI license is Premium (I've also tried with Pro).
The firewall setting of the Azure SQL Database
The error:
Cannot load model
Couldn't load the model schema associated with this report. Make sure you have a connection to the server, and try again.
Please try again later or contact support. If you contact support, please provide these details.
Activity ID671fca94-b76e-4660-a944-dff3b06235b3
Request ID748c1fb6-d8c1-b1af-072a-ea49a79c6b64
Correlation ID862117fb-f595-4130-40be-f1d195fa7cbe
TimeSat Sep 18 2021 18:13:33 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time)
Service version13.0.16736.54
Client version2108.5.07549-train
Cluster URIhttps://wabi-europe-north-b-redirect.analysis.windows.net/

When you are using Azure SQL Database as a data source, you must provide credentials before the Power BI service shows the published report.
Follow the instructions to provide the credentials from this Microsoft document.
If credentials are not added error occurs when opening the published report or a dataset that is created with the DirectQuery connection.

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I followed the below mentioned article :
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/publisher-for-excel
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I checked for my login and I am in Global Administrator role.
Still I found Refresh schedule on Dataset option disabled for me?
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I want to create a dashboard for our office that shows the progress of my team in real time.
I get the data from an on premises sql database, modeled the data in Power BI Desktop, and want to show the data on a TV that shows the Power BI website.
But how do I keep the data up to date?
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This Step leads to a Query which is not supported in Direct Query Mode.
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This walk through shows you how to setup a Data refresh interval for every 2 minutes. Use it as a guide to create your report and save to Report Server.
Once saved to Report Server you can setup a data refresh interval for your report to every 5 minutes.
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I have a working SSAS tabular model and I want to connect Power BI with live connection to this model. In the model there is a role (READ) for user DOMAIN\aldo. In Power BI desktop everything works fine. I can create report I can see data. In Power BI services I created gateway and successfully connected gateway. Upload to Power BI services was without problems. But despite of this I cannot see data in Power BI services.
Details:
ssas runs on NT service\mssqlserverolapservices
ssas admin technicUser
user in PBI: aldo#boston.com
user in client (according to whoami /upn): aldo#seattle.com (this is user DOMAIN\aldo in SSAS role)
mapping done in gateway to replace boston.com with seattle.com
user used in Gateway: technicUser
I can see user aldo#seattle.com in profiler as effective user name
<Catalog>AW</Catalog>
<SspropInitAppName>PowerBI</SspropInitAppName>
<EffectiveUserName>aldo#seattle.com</EffectiveUserName>
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Couldn't retrieve the data for this visual. Please try again later.
Please try again later or contact support. If you contact support, please >provide these details.
Activity ID8661ae16-5c87-4d04-9049-1e841341f25e
Request ID15355511-8ce9-2842-0eea-df1117ecb280
Correlation ID3e50c72c-06e8-8c81-8a44-78af1f309549
TimeWed Mar 14 2018 14:01:41 GMT+0100 (Central Europe Standard Time)
Version13.0.4622.132
Any idea what I´m missing to make to work?
I had the same error, like you mentioned in your comment. It has to do with the 32 or 64 bit version of the DLL.
OLE DB provider 'MSOLAP.5' cannot be instantiated
COMException (0x80040154)
80040154 Class not registered
I managed to resolve this by deregistering the 32-bit versions
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Analysis Services\AS OLEDB\110\msolap110.dll”
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Analysis Services\AS OLEDB\120\msolap120.dll”
and registering the 64 bit version.
“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Analysis Services\AS OLEDB\120\msolap120.dll”
In a command prompt running as admin you use the regsvr32 command.
To register a dll:
regsvr32 <pathToDLL>
To unregister a dll:
regsvr32 -u <pathToDLL>
From reference: PBI Forums

Power BI Gateway on-prem server

I have a MSSQL server on-prem and followed the steps from Microsofts Docs
in order to install the gateway.
Than i managed the gateway via manage gateways within power bi (cloud) and the test there worked and i got the green check.
Now the question how do i get the data from the gateway into a dataset? when i try to add a new dataset there and click on data bases i only get Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, SQL Server Analysis and Spark on Azure HDInsight but now sign of my fresh data gateway to my on-prem db.
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