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.
Currently you can only access on premise SQL Server databases by building a model & publishing it to powerbi.com using the Power BI Desktop.
If you select "Import" as your connection option, Power BI will store the required data online. You will be able to query on that fixed data and work with it even when your connection to the on premises server is down. You can update your fixed dataset with new data if your connection is properly defined in your gateway.
If you select "DirectQuery" in your Power BI Desktop you will require an active connection to the On premises server for any reporting to work online. On the up side, it'll work on live data and will not store any data online.
When publishing, Power BI Desktop will try to match your connections used in your report to the ones defined in your gateways. If it can find a match, it'll automaticly link those up. It'll give you an informational message to let you know if this step succeeded after publishing. At the same time it'll add a dataset using the same data you used in the reports you just built.
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I have SSMS installed on my laptop along with a localdb I created:
I am trying to create a connection with my localdb (in Power BI Service) and my local SQL db via my gateway but I keep getting an error. Here is a screenshot:
I am uploading a report from Power BI Report Builder. I am able to connect using the same credentials on Power BI Report Builder. However, when I enter the credentials on Power BI Service I get an error. Does anyone know why I am getting this error?
Try to install and use the normal SQL Server instead of LocalDB. When connecting to LocalDB, the necessary SQL Server infrastructure is automatically created and started, but I'm not sure that the Power BI Gateway supports that.
My business doesn't like using Direct Query. They believe in putting all data in to Power BI via the 'Import' option. This means that whenever our team wants to refresh the data in a Power Bi dashboard, they must:
Download the .pbix file from the SharePoint where they're published.
Open that file in Power BI desktop.
Click to refresh the data from our SQL server.
Re-publish the dashboard.
This has to be done for every single dashboard that we have. This is plainly absurd.
Can either Power Apps or Power Automate be used to refresh several dashboards at once? I don't know what licensing I have for Power Apps, but when I went through the list of connections that the web version let me use, I saw no options for Power BI. As for Power Automate, I saw no way to access my dashboards.
If your data is hosted in your internal network, you need to install the Data Gateway on a machine in your network. You can then use that data gateway for scheduled refresh and don't need to download/refres/upload the pbix file.
The Data Gateway is a free download. You can find links to that in the menus of the Power BI online interface.
I am working on a power bi report which is embedded in a portal. I need to display live GPS live locations of vehicles in a MAP based on a company that user has access to in the portal. basically every user will have a company associated to them and I'll use rowlevelsecurity for doing this.
A third party application will give access to live streaming data through a API. Is it possible to connect to a third party application API from power bi and show gps locations? If it is possible, how can I do it? I am totally new to this. please help me with any documents/scripts. We have power bi pro license.
For your use case you will not be able to do it all in Power BI, you'll need to push the streaming data to some sort of database, Azure SQL Server/Azure Cosmos DB/Azure Databricks using Event Hubs and maybe Streaming Analytics as well. So for example your stream sends the data to the event hub endpoint, then sends it to a database, then Power BI reads it.
You can then link a Power BI report to that database and set it up in Direct Query mode, and then set the page refresh on the report. Depending on the type of service your period of refresh for none Embedded/Premium workspaces will be 30mins or more, and not 'realtime'
As far as I know, deploying a Power BI report from Power BI Desktop results in two items, the report itself and the dataset. When deploying a new report using the same dataset, will deploy the new report and a second copy of the same dataset in Power BI Service. That is not what I wanted. To not confuse end users and other, I want only an unique dataset deployed.
I want to make use of Azure Devops deploying to Power BI Service in a Dev, Test and Prod way. The dataset will be an azure analysis services data model, but the principle should be the same. I need to reduce the dataset to be exactly one and all reports must relate to that data model. I have heard of a Rest API or powershell scripting that can come to a rescue here.
So if any of you have done this or know of a good article that describes how to do this, I would be grateful.
Regards Geir
The best option is to separate the Power BI report in the frontend and the backend. You create a file purely for the dataset if you are importing, no reports created on it. You can then create the reports, using the service connection to the dataset, or with Power BI desktop, in the connection to Power BI Dataset option. Both will use 'Live Connection' mode, so you cannot add any other data sources to the model, for example bring in a CSV file or SQL database.
If you are connecting to an Azure Analysis Service data model, you can use this approach, however as it is only a connection only, not a full fat dataset, it should not be an issue to have copies of the dataset, as it is just the connection. Having copies of the dataset is only an issue if you are importing data, then it is best to move things to data flows, and use the same front/back end method, and the planning around the scheduling of the dataflows then datasets
You can use the REST API to move reports and the datasets that they connect to, and move items to new workspaces. If you have Power BI Premium that has a life cycle tool to move items between dev/test/live workspaces
If you create a report in desktop and choose 'Power BI Dataset' as live connection to work over it - when you upload the report to the same workspace, it will only upload the report and connect to the same dataset
https://radacad.com/power-bi-shared-datasets-what-is-it-how-does-it-work-and-why-should-you-care#:~:text=A%20shared%20dataset%20is%20a%20dataset%20that%20shared%20between%20multiple,tenant%20in%20Power%20BI%20environment.
Good morning,
I am working with PowerBI premium and I am looking to connect a datasets existing in a premium workspace.
I need to connect to SQL Server Analysis services using the following connection string:
powerbi://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/workspacename;initial catalog=report_name
It works when connecting from PowerBI desktop but I am unable to connect to the datasets when I publish my report in the same workspace as the datasets.
The purpose of using SQL Server Analysis service instead of "Connect to PowerBI Datasets" is that I can work locally.
2 files:
1 datasets (Model)
1 report connected through "localhost:PortNumber"
When ready I can publish my datasets, then change datasets connection string in my report file and finally I can publish the report online for consumption.
Would someone know how I can do that without having an error after publishing the report online?