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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide Build dashboards and visualizations to make your data come to life

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138221
Length 202 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Scheduling data refreshes

Refreshing data in Power BI Report Server comes with a lot more caveats than using the Power BI cloud service. For example, refreshing is contingent on the data source that the report is using. Since you've installed this server inside your firewall, there's no need for a data management gateway to refresh the data either. As you create refreshing schedules, the server will simply create SQL Server Agent jobs to control the refreshes, such as Reporting Services. Because of this, SQL Agent must be started in order to create scheduled refreshes.

If you plan on refreshing data sources that are derived from files, make sure you use a network path for that file (\\computername\sharename\file.csv), not a local path (such as C:\Downloads\File.csv). You can do this in Power BI Desktop by going to the Home ribbon and selecting Edit Queries | Data Source...

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