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Data sources in Power BI Desktop

With Power BI Desktop, you can connect to data from many different sources. For a full list
of available data sources, see Power BI data sources.

You connect to data by using the Home ribbon. To show the Most Common data types
menu, select the Get Data button label or the down arrow.
To go to the Get Data dialog box, show the Most Common data types menu and
select More. You can also bring up the Get Data dialog box (and bypass the Most
Common menu) by selecting the Get Data icon directly.
Note
The Power BI team is continually expanding the data sources available to Power BI Desktop
and the Power BI service. As such, you'll often see early versions of work-in-progress data
sources marked as Beta or Preview. Any data source marked as Beta or Preview has limited
support and functionality, and it shouldn't be used in production environments.
Additionally, any data source marked as Beta or Preview for Power BI Desktop may not be
available for use in the Power BI service or other Microsoft services until the data source
becomes generally available (GA).

Note

There are many data connectors for Power BI Desktop that require Internet Explorer 10 (or
newer) for authentication.

Data sources

The Get Data dialog box organizes data types in the following categories:

 All
 File
 Database
 Power Platform
 Azure
 Online Services
 Other

The All category includes all data connection types from all categories.

File data sources

The File category provides the following data connections:

 Excel
 Text/CSV
 XML
 JSON
 Folder
 PDF
 SharePoint folder

The following image shows the Get Data window for File.
Database data sources

The Database category provides the following data connections:

 SQL Server database

 Access database
 SQL Server Analysis Services database
 Oracle database
 IBM DB2 database
 IBM Informix database (Beta)
 IBM Netezza
 MySQL database
 PostgreSQL database
  Sybase database
 Teradata database
 SAP HANA database
 SAP Business Warehouse Application Server
 SAP Business Warehouse Message Server
 Amazon Redshift
 Impala
 Google BigQuery
 Vertica
 Snowflake
 Essbase
 AtScale cubes
 BI Connector
 Data Virtuality LDW (Beta)
 Denodo
 Dremio
 Exasol
 Indexima (Beta)
 InterSystems IRIS (Beta)
 Jethro (Beta)
 Kyligence
 Linkar PICK Style / MultiValue Databases (Beta)
 MarkLogic
Note

Some database connectors require that you enable them by selecting File > Options and
settings > Options then selecting Preview Features and enabling the connector. If you don't
see some of the connectors mentioned above and want to use them, check your Preview
Features settings. Also note that any data source marked as Beta or Preview has limited
support and functionality, and should not be used in production environments.

The following image shows the Get Data window for Database.
Power Platform data sources

The Power Platform category provides the following data connections:

 Power BI datasets
 Power BI dataflows
 Common Data Service
 Power Platform dataflows

The following image shows the Get Data window for Power Platform.
Azure data sources

The Azure category provides the following data connections:

 Azure SQL Database

 Azure SQL Data Warehouse
 Azure Analysis Services database
 Azure Database for PostgreSQL
 Azure Blob Storage
 Azure Table Storage
 Azure Cosmos DB
 Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
 Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1
  Azure HDInsight (HDFS)
 Azure HDInsight Spark
 HDInsight Interactive Query
 Azure Data Explorer (Kusto)
 Azure Cost Management
 Azure Time Series Insights (Beta)

The following image shows the Get Data window for Azure.

Online Services data sources

The Online Services category provides the following data connections:

  SharePoint Online List
 Microsoft Exchange Online
 Dynamics 365 (online)
 Dynamics NAV
 Dynamics 365 Business Central
 Dynamics 365 Business Central (on-premises)
 Microsoft Azure Consumption Insights (Beta)
 Azure DevOps (Boards only)
 Azure DevOps Server (Boards only)
 Salesforce Objects
 Salesforce Reports
 Google Analytics
 Adobe Analytics
 appFigures (Beta)
 Data.World - Get Dataset (Beta)
 GitHub (Beta)
 LinkedIn Sales Navigator (Beta)
 Marketo (Beta)
 Mixpanel (Beta)
 Planview Enterprise One - PRM (Beta)
 Planview Projectplace (Beta)
 QuickBooks Online (Beta)
 Smartsheet
 SparkPost (Beta)
 SweetIQ (Beta)
 Planview Enterprise One - CTM (Beta)
 Twilio (Beta)
 tyGraph (Beta)
 Webtrends (Beta)
 Zendesk (Beta)
 Asana (Beta)
 Dynamics 365 Customer Insights (Beta)
 Emigo Data Source
 Entersoft Business Suite (Beta)
 FactSet Analytics (Beta)
 Industrial App Store
 Intune Data Warehouse (Beta)
 Microsoft Graph Security (Beta)
 Projectplace for Power BI (Beta)
 Product Insights (beta)
 Quick Base
 TeamDesk (Beta)
 Webtrends Analytics (Beta)
 Witivio (Beta)
 Workplace Analytics (Beta)
 Zoho Creator (Beta)

The following image shows the Get Data window for Online Services.
Other data sources

The Other category provides the following data connections:

 Web
 SharePoint list
 OData Feed
 Active Directory
 Microsoft Exchange
 Hadoop File (HDFS)
 Spark
 Hive LLAP (Beta)
 R script
  Python script
 ODBC
 OLE DB
 Solver
 Cognite Data Fusion (Beta)
 FHIR
 Information Grid (Beta)
 Jamf Pro (Beta)
 MicroStrategy for Power BI
 Paxata
 QubolePresto (Beta)
 Roamler (Beta)
 Shortcuts Business Insights (Beta)
 Siteimprove
 SurveyMonkey (Beta)
 Tenforce (Smart)List
 TIBCO(R) Data Virtualization (Beta)
 Vena (Beta)
 Workforce Dimensions (Beta)
 Zucchetti HR Infinity (Beta)
 Blank Query

The following image shows the Get Data window for Other.
Note

At this time, it's not possible to connect to custom data sources secured using Azure Active
Directory.

Connecting to a data source

To connect to a data source, select the data source from the Get Data window and
select Connect. In the following image, Web is selected from the Other data connection
category.
A connection window is displayed, specific to the type of data connection. If credentials are
required, you’ll be prompted to provide them. The following image shows a URL being
entered to connect to a Web data source.
Enter the URL or resource connection information, and then select OK. Power BI Desktop
makes the connection to the data source, and it presents the available data sources in
the Navigator.
To load the data, select the Load button at the bottom of the Navigator pane. To transform
or edit the query in Power Query Editor before loading the data, select the Transform
Data button.

That’s all there is to connecting to data sources in Power BI Desktop! Try connecting to data
from our growing list of data sources, and check back often - we continue to add to this list
all the time.

Using PBIDS files to get data

PBIDS files are Power BI Desktop files that have a specific structure, and they have a .PBIDS
extension to identify it is a Power BI data source file.

You can create a PBIDS file to streamline the Get Data experience for report creators in your
organization. To make it easier for a new report author to use PBIDS files, we recommend
that an administrator create these files for commonly used connections.

When an author opens a PBIDS file, Power BI Desktop opens and prompts the user for
credentials to authenticate and connect to the data source that's specified in the file.
The Navigation dialog box appears, and the user must select the tables from that data
source to load into the model. Users may also need to select the database(s) if none was
specified in the PBIDS file.

From that point forward, the user can begin building visualizations or select Recent
Sources to load a new set of tables into the model.

Currently, PBIDS files only support a single data source in one file. Specifying more than one
data source results in an error.

To create the PBIDS file, an administrator must specify the required inputs for a single
connection. They can also specify the connection mode as either DirectQuery or Import.
If mode is missing/null in the file, the user who opens the file in Power BI Desktop is
prompted to select DirectQuery or Import.

PBIDS file examples

This section provides some examples from commonly used data sources. The PBIDS file type
only supports data connections that are also supported in Power BI Desktop, with two
exceptions: Live Connect and Blank Query.

The PBIDS file doesn't include authentication information and table and schema
information.

The following code snippets show several common examples for PBIDS files, but they aren't
complete or comprehensive. For other data sources, you can refer to the Data Source
Reference (DSR) format for protocol and address information.
These examples are for convenience only, aren't meant to be comprehensive, and don't
include all supported connectors in DSR format. An administrator or organization can create
their own data sources using these examples as guides, from which they can create and
support their own data source files.

Azure AS
JSONCopy

{
"version": "0.1",
"connections": [
{
"details": {
"protocol": "analysis-services",
"address": {
"server": "server-here"
},
}
}
]
}
Folder
JSONCopy

{
"version": "0.1",
"connections": [
{
"details": {
"protocol": "folder",
"address": {
"path": "folder-path-here"
}
}
}
]
}
OData
JSONCopy

{
"version": "0.1",
"connections": [
{
"details": {
"protocol": "odata",
"address": {
"url": "URL-here"
}
 }
}
]
}
SAP BW
JSONCopy

{
"version": "0.1",
"connections": [
{
"details": {
"protocol": "sap-bw-olap",
"address": {
"server": "server-name-here",
"systemNumber": "system-number-here",
"clientId": "client-id-here"
},
}
}
]
}
SAP Hana
JSONCopy

{
"version": "0.1",
"connections": [
{
"details": {
"protocol": "sap-hana-sql",
"address": {
"server": "server-name-here:port-here"
},
}
}
]
}
SharePoint list

The URL must point to the SharePoint site itself, not to a list within the site. Users get a
navigator that allows them to select one or more lists from that site, each of which becomes
a table in the model.

JSONCopy

{
"version": "0.1",
"connections": [
 {
"details": {
"protocol": "sharepoint-list",
"address": {
"url": "URL-here"
},
}
}
]
}
SQL Server
JSONCopy

{
  "version": "0.1",
  "connections": [
    {
      "details": {
        "protocol": "tds",
        "address": {
          "server": "server-name-here",
          "database": "db-name-here (optional) "
        }
      },
      "options": {},
      "mode": "DirectQuery"
    }
 ]
}
Text file
JSONCopy

{
"version": "0.1",
"connections": [
{
"details": {
"protocol": "file",
"address": {
"path": "path-here"
}
}
}
]
}
Web
JSONCopy

{
 "version": "0.1",
"connections": [
{
"details": {
"protocol": "http",
"address": {
"url": "URL-here"
}
}
}
]
}
Dataflow
JSONCopy

{
"version": "0.1",
"connections": [
{
"details": {
"protocol": "powerbi-dataflows",
"address": {
"workspace":"workspace id (Guid)",
"dataflow":"optional dataflow id (Guid)",
"entity":"optional entity name"
}
}
}
]
}