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Published inSep 2021
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ISBN-139781801813044
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Gregory Deckler
Gregory Deckler
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Gregory Deckler

Greg Deckler is a 7-time Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and an active blogger and Power BI community member, having written over 6,000 solutions to community questions. Greg has authored many books on Power BI, including Learn Power BI 1st and 2nd Editions, DAX Cookbook, Power BI Cookbook 2nd Edition and Mastering Power BI 2nd Edition. Greg has also created several external tools for Power BI and regularly posts video content to his YouTube channels, Microsoft Hates Greg and DAX For Humans.
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Brett Powell
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Brett Powell

Brett Powell is the owner of and business intelligence consultant at Frontline Analytics LLC, a data and analytics research and consulting firm and Microsoft Power BI partner. He has worked with Power BI technologies since they were first introduced as the PowerPivot add-in for Excel 2010 and has been a Power BI architect and lead BI consultant for organizations across the retail, manufacturing, and financial services industries. Additionally, Brett has led Boston's Power BI User Group, delivered presentations at technology events such as Power BI World Tour, and maintains the popular Insight Quest Microsoft BI blog.
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Creating an On-Premises Data Gateway

The Microsoft on-premises data gateway (or simply gateway) is a Windows service that runs in on-premises environments or in infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) data sources running in the cloud, such as virtual machines running SQL Server databases. The sole purpose of the gateway is to support secure (encrypted) and efficient data transfer between on-premises and IaaS data sources and Microsoft Azure services such as Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Azure Logic Apps, via an outbound connection to Azure Service Bus. It is important to note that if all data sources used in Power BI reports are in the cloud (and so not on-premises) and accessible by the Power BI service, then the Microsoft on-premises data gateway is not required, as the Power BI service will use native cloud gateways to access native cloud data sources; this could be something such as Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instances.

Once installed, a gateway can be...

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Published in: Sep 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801813044

Authors (2)

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Gregory Deckler

Greg Deckler is a 7-time Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and an active blogger and Power BI community member, having written over 6,000 solutions to community questions. Greg has authored many books on Power BI, including Learn Power BI 1st and 2nd Editions, DAX Cookbook, Power BI Cookbook 2nd Edition and Mastering Power BI 2nd Edition. Greg has also created several external tools for Power BI and regularly posts video content to his YouTube channels, Microsoft Hates Greg and DAX For Humans.
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Brett Powell

Brett Powell is the owner of and business intelligence consultant at Frontline Analytics LLC, a data and analytics research and consulting firm and Microsoft Power BI partner. He has worked with Power BI technologies since they were first introduced as the PowerPivot add-in for Excel 2010 and has been a Power BI architect and lead BI consultant for organizations across the retail, manufacturing, and financial services industries. Additionally, Brett has led Boston's Power BI User Group, delivered presentations at technology events such as Power BI World Tour, and maintains the popular Insight Quest Microsoft BI blog.
Read more about Brett Powell