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Combine multiple Gateway in single dataset/report

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S M Atiqur Rahman on 30 May 2019 13:18:36

Currently, all data sources in a Power BI report/dataset, that are not on cloud, must be available in a single Gateway to work.

But if the datasources in the report are coming from different Gateways, that doesn't work. It is not possible to combine them for refresh.

Say I have a Sales Report. It connects to DB A, B and C.

DB A and B is configured in Gateway X
DB C is configured in Gateway Y.

The report creator have been provided access to all of them.

Now if I try to configure data refresh in PBI Service, it will not work. As none of the Gateway has all 3 DBs. The user can’t connect to DB A and B through Gateway X, and DB C through Gateway Y.

We have to configure all the DBs in the same Gateway to work.

Since in our organization, we have many datasources, and different teams control the access to them, it becomes troublesome, and lots of repetitive data sources has to be created that causes a governance and management headache.

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a3309361 99be-ea11-a812-000d3a8ddfb2 on 05 Jul 2020 23:49:41

RE: Combine multiple Gateway in single dataset/report

This would be a good improvement!