Hi, and welcome to this Getting Data into Power BI from different sources course. My name is Hallam Webber, and I'm an Azure instructor with 25-plus years of experience in the IT industry, and since 2014 I've focused on Microsoft Azure and related technologies.

This course is aimed at students wanting to learn how to get data from various types of sources located on different platforms into Power Bi.

The information presented in this course will be helpful to students preparing for the PL-300: Microsoft Power Bi Data Analyst exam.

In this course, we’ll see how to pull data from databases and files hosted locally and in Azure. As we shall see, Power Bi supports many data sources, literally dozens and dozens. So, we will not be looking at all of the data sources because that would make for a very long and slightly boring course. We’ll look at Power BI’s different storage modes and how those modes impact performance.

This is an intermediate-level course, so I expect you to have used Power Bi desktop and Power Bi online before. XMLA endpoint, one of the more specialized data connection topics, does require a premium or premium per-user account. You can sign up for a premium account on a generous trial basis.

When I created this course, all information was current. If you have any feedback, positive or negative, or if you notice anything that needs to be updated or corrected, please reach out to us at support@cloudacademy.com.