My infrastructure is built on Linux and PostgreSQL, but my company is transitioning to Power BI. I was able to install PBI Desktop and connect to a PostgreSQL database on a Windows machine with a Personal Gateway and it works. I want to confirm:
- I am not able to install a Gateway on a Linux OS, correct?
- There is no option to do a DirectQuery or Live Connection to a PostgreSQL source?
- There is no Enterprise Gateway (only Personal) for PostgreSQL
There is a subset of reports which need to be refreshed every 15-30 minutes. which is beyond the limit of 8 scheduled refreshes per day. Since a DirectQuery does not seem to work with PostgreSQL, my potential solution is to purchase an Azure Windows Server with SQL Server 2016 instance. I would then funnel my data (using BCP?) from my PostgreSQL to the Azure instance. Any experts out there who can comment on whether this would be a decent option? For reports which only need to be refreshed daily, I can retain the data in PostgreSQL and use the gateway to run some scheduled refreshes.