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Power BI Dataflows now support data integration with Snowflake

Today we had a great announcement about Azure Data Factory and Snowflake:

ADF now supports data integration with Snowflake

Power BI Dataflows now support data integration with Snowflake

But the next thing I tried today was using the native Snowflake Connector in Power BI Dataflows. And it works – very good news for my projects where we were struggling with ODBC connections through a Power BI Gateway.

NOW the native Snowflake Connector can be used in Dataflows, but how? There is still no Database Connector in the “Get Data” Dialog:

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Power BI Dataflows Database Connector

Solution, just copy and paste the query from Power BI Desktop:

 Source = Snowflake.Databases() will be recognized now:

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Dataflow settings

Related reading: Snowflake Account Usage in Power BI, Snowflake and Microsoft Azure Data Factory, and A Jump Start to Power BI Dataflows.

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