Introduction to the Power BI integration
Azure Synapse offers integration with Power BI to allow you to visualize, create, and modify Power BI reports from Azure Synapse Studio. This is a powerful capability that increases team productivity by allowing team collaboration at all stages in the analytics process from within a single tool: Azure Synapse Studio. In this section, to better understand how this collaboration works in real life, we will create a new report using Power BI Desktop, connect a Power BI workspace with your Azure Synapse workspace, and then work on this report in Azure Synapse Studio.
Power BI reports need a data source definition to connect to data. At the time of writing, the Power BI data source for Azure Synapse was only available using Power BI Desktop. We will use Power BI Desktop to create the data source, author an initial report, and publish this initial report and data source to the Power BI service. After this data source has been published, we can...