Publish visuals only keeping the dataset on local machine (Power BI Desktop)

[centroid]

Is it possible to publish only the visuals without publishing the underlying dataset? My goal is to keep the underlying dataset on my local machine.

[Icey]

Hi @centroid ,

In addition to the method @amitchandak said, you can also consider using Power BI Report Server. It is an on-premises report server with a web portal in which you display and manage reports and KPIs. And SQL Server is used to host the report server databases. Your underlying dataset is kept locally.

Best Regards,

Icey

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[amitchandak · Accepted solution]

@centroid , No, I do not think so. Power BI service needs the dataset to run.

As a solution

You can use a direct query connection to an on-premise database (like SQL Server), In that case, no data will be sent to the power bi service dataset. You need to use the on-premise gateway to run the report on power bi service