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Please foresee support for Azure Data Lake as data source

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Sam Vanhoutte on 14 Nov 2015 00:23:42

Now that Azure Data Lake has been made public and is part of the Cortana Analytics Suite, I believe it is very important to have support for Azure Data Lake Store in Power BI as well. Now we have to move all of our data from ADL to blob or table storage, which is too cumbersome

Administrator on 14 Jan 2017 06:21:19

The Azure Data Lake Store connector is already available in Power BI. You can find it under the “Azure” category within the Get Data dialog in Power BI Desktop, and reports created with this connector are supported for refresh in the Power BI service.

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:16

RE: Please foresee support for Azure Data Lake as data source

new version of the connector to data lake is too slow...

Take more than 3 minutes just to list files in a folder with about 70 files inside.

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Yan on 05 Jul 2020 22:57:10

RE: Please foresee support for Azure Data Lake as data source

Too bad there is no connector for Analytics, meaning DirectQuery on views/tables or passing custom U-SQL.

REST is supported on the source side... (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-lake-analytics/data-lake-analytics-get-started-rest-api)

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Marius on 05 Jul 2020 22:32:51

RE: Please foresee support for Azure Data Lake as data source

Hi Miguel,

Will we be able to access the Data Lake Analytics managed tables / views as well, or just the Data Lake Store files?

Thank you!