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[Rahulsingh]

Hi Everyone

I have a unique situation where my client has 23 databases for their companies with same table and views. they want a report in which they can filter the report by each company and view the report .

My delima is how can i merge multiple databases table in powerBI , if anyone ran into this issue previously, any help will be great.

Thanks

[Rahulsingh · Accepted solution]

Hi Ankit, 

Is it possible to get an example on how to create a database connecion parameter . Thanks 

[ankitpatira]

@Rahulsingh What you want to do is in powerbi desktop create two parameters that contains server and database name for your databases (i am guessing you have sql server database). Then create all your reports from first database in powerbi desktop and save that as powerbi template file (.pbit). Next when you open that template file it will ask you for values for those parameters and you can enter in that for all other databases. By this you won't have to create seperate pbix for each database and you can use just one template file for all your databases.

Hope it make sense.

[austinsense]

If you want one report where you can select the data you want then all the data has to be in one data model ...

• You can use the query editor to create 23 separate queries (sounds hard but you just create a query for one of the views and then duplicate it and change the data source).
• You probably want to add the same column to each query indicating which database it's from
• You'll then append all the queries together

The nice thing is once you've built this you'll never have to build it again - this is you being nice to your future self

[Rahulsingh · Accepted solution]

Hi Ankit, 

Is it possible to get an example on how to create a database connecion parameter . Thanks 

[v-sihou-msft]

@Rahulsingh

You just need to create a query parameter and populate it with database name, then use this parameter in source Power Query. See screenshots below:

Regards,

[snifer]

I'm in a similar situation,

what I want is to do is to read tables from the different database on Azure, and then, for example, calculate the net profit for a period from all database.

can u post a guide how to do that?

[snifer]

@v-sihou-msft

I'm in a similar situation,

what I want is to do is to read tables from the different database on Azure, and then, for example, calculate the net profit for a period from all database.

can u post a guide how to do that?