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By delving into this free 80 page chapter, you’ll gain insights into connecting Power BI Desktop with various databases and data warehouses. Not only that, but you’ll also lea
that Power BI Desktop conveniently offers pre-built connections to most databases commonly found in corporate settings.

While corporate databases excel in organizing vast amounts of data, there’s one minor inconvenience: the time it takes to load data from these databases into Power BI Desktop’s in-memory data model. Microsoft’s development team has recognized this issue and devised a solution called DirectQuery (or Connect Live), which we’ll explore in the upcoming chapter.

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