Adding data to Power BI reports
Power BI can currently connect to a wide variety of data sources. Your reports begin by connecting to the data you want to explore and visualize. For example, you can connect to file data sources like Excel, csv, txt or xml file types. You can also connect databases like SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgresSQL or Hadoop HDFS. In addition, you can get data from Azure datastores such as HDInsight, SQL Data Warehouse, and DocumentDB. In this recipe you will connect Power BI to the SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular model.
How to do it...
- Open Power BI desktop and select Get Data from the opening screen:
- On the Get Data window, select the data source you want to connect to. In this recipe you connect to the completed crash data database:
- Select SQL Server Analysis Services Database and then Connect.
- Type in your server name for the SSAS tabular model and make sure the Connect live radio button is selected and click OK:
- In the Navigator window, select the Crash_Data_Model_Complete...