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Hi everyone,
I have a situation where I need to be able to develop in Desktop against both an ODBC data source in the cloud as well as a local server. Here is a high level view:
I'm thinking that my only options may be to have a VPN connection to the Gateway server where SQL Express sits or open up ports for SQL for remote access but I think the client may not be open to that. My other concern is making sure that however I am connecting locally to develop doesn't cause issue in the Power BI Service once published.
Any advice is greatly appreciated!
Kevin
so we installed a SQL Express instance on the Gateway server
Highly not recommended. They will fight tooth and nail for the available RAM and compute cycles. At a minimum you should set a RAM limit for the SQL server.
The solution to your problem are -sadly- dataflows. (Or - gasp- datamarts, if that is your thing) They allow you to run the ETL in a walled-off environment but still be able to create your reports from whereever.
The SQL Express has one database with one table with only 6 columns and is updated daily with about 3K rows (only takes maybe 2 min). Power BI serice is updating once a night through the gateway at a different time so I'm not overly concerned about the performance.
In the end I was able to get an ODBC connection into the Gateway from my local machine so this will work.
Thanks!
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