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Published inFeb 2024
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ISBN-139781805126409
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Gus Frazer
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Gus Frazer

Gus Frazer is a seasoned analytics consultant who focuses on business intelligence solutions. With over eight years of experience working for the two market-leading platforms, Power BI (Microsoft) and Tableau, he has amassed a wealth of knowledge and expertise. He also has experience in helping hundreds of customers to drive their digital and data transformations, scope data requirements, drive actionable insights, and most important of all, clean data ready for analysis.
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Connecting to data sources within Power BI Report Builder

Power BI Report Builder offers a variety of data source options to meet the diverse needs of its users – whether that is connecting directly to the data source or connecting to a data source that has already been curated and published to the Power BI service. Here is an example screenshot of the connection types available when creating a data source with Power BI Report Builder:

Figure 13.2 – Data Source Properties showing connection types available

Figure 13.2 – Data Source Properties showing connection types available

This includes the following connectors:

  • SQL Server: Connect to Microsoft SQL Server databases, allowing users to pull in data directly from relational databases
  • ODBC: Can be used to access data from Excel workbooks, enabling users to incorporate spreadsheet data into their paginated reports
  • Power BI datasets: Connect to semantic models in Power BI to integrate published data into paginated reports
  • Other databases: Power...
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Published in: Feb 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781805126409

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Gus Frazer

Gus Frazer is a seasoned analytics consultant who focuses on business intelligence solutions. With over eight years of experience working for the two market-leading platforms, Power BI (Microsoft) and Tableau, he has amassed a wealth of knowledge and expertise. He also has experience in helping hundreds of customers to drive their digital and data transformations, scope data requirements, drive actionable insights, and most important of all, clean data ready for analysis.
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