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Power BI report data sources in Power BI Report Server |
Power BI reports can connect to a number of data sources. Depending on how data is used, different data sources are available. |
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Power BI reports can connect to a number of data sources. Depending on how data is used, different data sources are available. Data can be imported or data can be queried directly using DirectQuery or a live connection to SQL Server Analysis Services. Some data sources are available in Power BI Desktop optimized for Power BI Report Server, but aren't supported when published to Power BI Report Server.
These data sources are specific to Power BI reports used within Power BI Report Server. For information about data sources supported with paginated reports (.rdl), see Data Sources Supported by Reporting Services.
Important
All data sources in a Power BI Desktop report must support configuring scheduled refresh.
| Data source | Cached data | Scheduled refresh | Live/DirectQuery |
|---|---|---|---|
| SQL Server Database | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SQL Server Analysis Services | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Azure SQL Database | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Azure SQL Data Warehouse | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Excel | Yes | Yes | No |
| Access Database | Yes | Yes | No |
| Active Directory | Yes | Yes | No |
| Amazon Redshift | Yes | No | No |
| Azure Blob Storage | Yes | Yes | No |
| Azure Data Lake Store | Yes | No | No |
| Azure HDInsight (HDFS) | Yes | No | No |
| Azure HDInsight (Spark) | Yes | No | No |
| Azure Table Storage | Yes | Yes | No |
| Dynamics 365 (online) | Yes | No | No |
| Yes | No | No | |
| Folder | Yes | Yes | No |
| Google Analytics | Yes | No | No |
| Hadoop File (HDFS) | Yes | No | No |
| IBM DB2 Database | Yes | Yes | No |
| Impala | Yes | No | No |
| JSON | Yes | Yes | No |
| Microsoft Exchange | Yes | No | No |
| Microsoft Exchange Online | Yes | No | No |
| MySQL Database | Yes | Yes | No |
| OData Feed | Yes | Yes | No |
| ODBC | Yes | Yes | No |
| OLE DB | Yes | Yes | No |
| Oracle Database | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PostgreSQL Database | Yes | Yes | No |
| Power BI service | No | No | No |
| R Script | Yes | No | No |
| Salesforce Objects | Yes | No | No |
| Salesforce Reports | Yes | No | No |
| SAP Business Warehouse server | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SAP HANA Database | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SharePoint Folder (on-premises) | Yes | Yes | No |
| SharePoint List (on-premises) | Yes | Yes | No |
| SharePoint Online List | Yes | No | No |
| Snowflake | Yes | No | No |
| Sybase Database | Yes | Yes | No |
| Teradata | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Text/CSV | Yes | Yes | No |
| Web | Yes | Yes | No |
| XML | Yes | Yes | No |
| appFigures (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| Azure Analysis Services database | Yes | No | Yes |
| Azure Cosmos DB (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| Azure HDInsight Spark (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| Common Data Service (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| comScore Digital Analytix (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| Dynamics 365 for Customer Insights (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| Dynamics 365 for Financials (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| GitHub (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| Google BigQuery (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| IBM Informix database (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| IBM Netezza (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| Kusto (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| MailChimp (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| Microsoft Azure Consumption Insights (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| Mixpanel (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| Planview Enterprise (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| Projectplace (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| QuickBooks Online (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| Smartsheet | Yes | No | No |
| Spark (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| SparkPost (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| SQL Sentry (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| Stripe (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| SweetIQ (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| Troux (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| Twilio (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| tyGraph (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| Vertica (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| Visual Studio Team Services (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| Webtrends (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
| Zendesk (Beta) | Yes | No | No |
Important
Row-level security configured at the data source should work for certain DirectQuery (SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Oracle and Teradata) and live connections assuming Kerberos is configured properly in your environment.
Power BI Report Server does not support OAuth-based authentication for model refresh. Some data sources such as Excel or Access databases make use of a separate step like File or Web to connect to data.
| Data source | Anonymous Authentication | Key Authentication | Username and Password | Windows Authentication |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SQL Server Database | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| SQL Server Analysis Services | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Web | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Azure SQL Database | No | No | Yes | No |
| Azure SQL Data Warehouse | No | No | Yes | No |
| Active Directory | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Amazon Redshift | No | No | No | No |
| Azure Blob Storage | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Azure Data Lake Store | No | No | No | No |
| Azure HDInsight (HDFS) | No | No | No | No |
| Azure HDInsight (Spark) | No | No | No | No |
| Azure Table Storage | No | Yes | No | No |
| Dynamics 365 (online) | No | No | No | No |
| No | No | No | No | |
| Folder | No | No | No | Yes |
| Google Analytics | No | No | No | No |
| Hadoop File (HDFS) | No | No | No | No |
| IBM DB2 Database | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Impala | No | No | No | No |
| Microsoft Exchange | No | No | No | No |
| Microsoft Exchange Online | No | No | No | No |
| MySQL Database | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| OData Feed | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ODBC | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| OLE DB | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Oracle Database | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| PostgreSQL Database | No | No | Yes | No |
| Power BI service | No | No | No | No |
| R Script | No | No | No | No |
| Salesforce Objects | No | No | No | No |
| Salesforce Reports | No | No | No | No |
| SAP Business Warehouse server | No | No | Yes | No |
| SAP HANA Database | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| SharePoint Folder (on-premises) | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| SharePoint List (on-premises) | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| SharePoint Online List | No | No | No | No |
| Snowflake | No | No | No | No |
| Sybase Database | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Teradata | No | No | Yes | Yes** |
| appFigures (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Azure Analysis Services database (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Azure Cosmos DB (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Azure HDInsight Spark (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Common Data Service (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| comScore Digital Analytix (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Dynamics 365 for Customer Insights (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Dynamics 365 for Financials (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| GitHub (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Google BigQuery (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| IBM Informix database (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| IBM Netezza (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Kusto (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| MailChimp (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Microsoft Azure Consumption Insights (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Mixpanel (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Planview Enterprise (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Projectplace (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| QuickBooks Online (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Smartsheet | No | No | No | No |
| Spark (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| SparkPost (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| SQL Sentry (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Stripe (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| SweetIQ (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Troux (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Twilio (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| tyGraph (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Vertica (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Visual Studio Team Services (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Webtrends (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
| Zendesk (Beta) | No | No | No | No |
**Using LDAP authentication with Teradata (enabled in Power BI Desktop by using the Command Prompt command 'setx PBI_EnableTeradataLdap true') is not supported for model refresh.
Power BI Report Server has a limitation when using web data: only data files from web can be refreshed. Data based on Page or By example aren't refreshable. This limitation is because the M expressions created with Web.BrowserContents and Web.Page can't be refreshed. Power BI Report Server can only refresh Web.Contents data sources.
Power BI Report Server does not support OAuth-based authentication for DirectQuery.
| Data source | Anonymous Authentication | Key Authentication | Username and Password | Windows Authentication | Integrated Windows Authentication |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SQL Server Database | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SQL Server Analysis Services | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Azure SQL Database | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| Azure SQL Data Warehouse | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| Oracle Database | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SAP Business Warehouse server | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| SAP HANA Database | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes** |
| Teradata | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
**SAP HANA supports DirectQuery with Integrated Windows Authentication only when using it as a relational database in the published Power BI Desktop file (.pbix).
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