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Allow more than one data source for Direct Queries.

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Botz on 08 Feb 2016 01:24:30

In order to make Direct query more useful it needs to support data from more than one source.

Administrator on 17 Nov 2018 02:49:10

Composite models, which lets you combine multiple direct query sources in one model along with import sources, is now generally available with our November release: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-november-2018-feature-summary/#compositeModels

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Nikhil Joy on 06 Jul 2020 00:01:06

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Composite models are still not supported for data sources like SAP BW, HANA etc. Please make it possible.

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Marian Scipa on 05 Jul 2020 23:53:17

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Hi Power BI Team,
This still does not work with Analysis services DB sources (cubes)...

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:14

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Hi,

Does this mean I can use what if parameters for my Direct Query dashboards in PowerBI. com? I have been waiting for this feature. If this is not yet possible. I would like to submit this as an idea.

Thanks.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:30:33

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When will this feature be deployed so that we are able to publish our models?

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Anilkumar C on 05 Jul 2020 23:26:19

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I see multi data source for Direct Query is available for MS SQL but not working for SAP HANA. Can I know when this feature is available for HANA source system?

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Ray on 05 Jul 2020 23:25:27

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When will you include SSAS connections

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HK on 05 Jul 2020 23:25:18

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That could be better to provide multiple data source access for live connection (direct query)

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John Koziaris on 05 Jul 2020 23:24:57

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Yes we need

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Peter Godzina on 05 Jul 2020 23:24:24

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This would be very useful. We have a lot of RSS feeds (40+) on the web with data that we want to pull into a single report, but have no capability of doing so.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:24:19

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We are planning to adopt Power BI and this feature is an absolute must. But unfortunately this is not available.

The equivalent feature seems to be available in Tableau 10.

https://onlinehelp.tableau.com/current/pro/desktop/en-us/joining_tables.html