Hello everyone,
I have a quick inquiry in regards to Excel: In Power BI, if you pull in a Excel datasheet which is connected to on-premises database, will the data update in Power BI whenever the Excel file is updated? I understand that if you pull in a local Excel file, it gets moved to the Azure directory; but does the connection that it had still remain after it goes into the Azure environment? If not, what would be a good alternative to display data that is refreshed daily, without making a direct connection to the on prem database? I want to have a live/connected intermediary for the purpose of security.
Also, on another question: When you take a table and submit it to the Online PBI service, will the any non-implemented fields be omitted when it goes into Azure? For example; in one of my tables I am calculating something into a percentage from external cells (outside the table); will those external cells be held inside Azure, or will only the percentages within the table be held on Azure?
Any clarification and/or insights to these would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
-Alex b.