PowerBI Question - Data Sources

  • I don't see a PowerBI forum, so I'm posting here.

    I have a need to create a report using one query but multiple SQL Servers. I'm wondering if I could create a CMS registered group and somehow pass the query to all servers in the group at the same time and pull back the results to a report.

    Is that possible? Or are data sources essentially hardcoded into the data sources?

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  • If you can create a stored procedure that returns the data that you need, then you can use that as the source of your report/table in your model.

    Just in case you've never played with PowerBI very much... Go to Get Data, SQL Server, and click on the >.

    Then you can specify a stored procedure or a query that you want PowerBI to pass to SQL Server and return the results. So you could do something like

    EXEC dbo.MyStoredProcedure @Param1=12, @Param2='Frank';

    and PowerBi would just get the data back from it. So if you had all the servers dump their data to a single table or result set / stored procedure, all that would be available to PowerBI.

  • I appreciate the answer, but I'm not sure that answers my question. Thank you, though.

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