How to Get Data Using Python in Power BI

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How to Get Data Using Python in Power BI

Daniel Calbimonte

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004406 More actions · Answer 1

With the understanding that I've never used Power BI, are you suggesting that Power BI cannot get data directly from SQL Server without having to use a language like Python?

If you CAN get the data directly, is there any advantage to using Python to get the data you want instead of, say, calling a stored procedure? I can see that it might be a little easier to get CSV data from a file but what about getting data from SQL Server?

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004406 More actions · Answer 2

Jeff Moden wrote:

With the understanding that I've never used Power BI, are you suggesting that Power BI cannot get data directly from SQL Server without having to use a language like Python?
If you CAN get the data directly, is there any advantage to using Python to get the data you want instead of, say, calling a stored procedure? I can see that it might be a little easier to get CSV data from a file but what about getting data from SQL Server?

@ Daniel Calbimonte,

Any chance that you could provide an answer to the question I asked, repeated as a quote above for your convenience?

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Daniel Calbimonte SSCertifiable Points: 6200 More actions · Answer 3

In my opinion, to get data, I would prefer to transform and convert it using a stored procedure or DAX. To extract data, I would use Python, if there are some formulas only included in Python and not available in T-SQL or DAX to convert or transform the data.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004406 More actions · Answer 4

Thank you for the feedback, Daniel. I appreciate it.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)