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Soheil Bakhshi
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Soheil Bakhshi

Soheil Bakhshi is the founder of Data Vizioner and is a sought after BI consultant. Working in data and analytics for more than 20 years, Soheil's experience lies in Microsoft BI, Data Warehousing, and Power BI platform. He possesses MSCE, MCSA certifications and is a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional). He has a passion for sharing knowledge via his website and speaking at conferences and Power BI community events locally and globally. In following his desire for simplicity and efficiency, he is behind Power BI community tools and commercial products such as Power BI Exporter and Power BI Documenter.
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Working with connection modes

When we connect to a data source, the query connection mode falls into one of the following three different categories:

  • Data Import
  • DirectQuery
  • Connect Live

Every query connecting to one or more data sources in the Power Query Editor has one of the preceding connection modes, except Connect Live. When the connection mode is Connect Live, a Power BI model cannot currently connect to more than one instance of SSAS or AAS, or a Power BI dataset. As mentioned earlier, in December 2020, Microsoft released the preview of the new version of the composite models in which we can connect to multiple Power BI Datasets or AAS/SSAS tabular 2022 models when using the DirectQuery mode. We discuss composite models in more detail in Chapter 14, DirectQuery Connections to Power BI Datasets and Analysis Services in Composite Models.

This section looks at the connection modes, their applications, and their limitations.

Data Import

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Soheil Bakhshi

Soheil Bakhshi is the founder of Data Vizioner and is a sought after BI consultant. Working in data and analytics for more than 20 years, Soheil's experience lies in Microsoft BI, Data Warehousing, and Power BI platform. He possesses MSCE, MCSA certifications and is a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional). He has a passion for sharing knowledge via his website and speaking at conferences and Power BI community events locally and globally. In following his desire for simplicity and efficiency, he is behind Power BI community tools and commercial products such as Power BI Exporter and Power BI Documenter.
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