Thursday, December 1, 2016

SQL Anywhere 17 Reports using Power BI

 Power BI is a great tool to turn out reports from many data sources. With OLE DB connector added in the October Update of Power BI it is quite easy to generate a report.

In this post I describe creating a report using data from the Financial Data (Group 0) of the sample database 'demo'

Step 1:
Connect to SQL Anywhere 17
Launch SQL Central and connect to Demo database

 Step 2:
Launch PowerBI and connect to SQL Anywhere 17 Demo database using a OLE DB connection. Make sure to use the Advanced button to run the query as shown.



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When you get the data in the Query Editor click Load.



SQLAny17_Repo_01.png
The Financial Data gets loaded as shown.



SQLAny17_Repo_02.png
Choose data fields as shown:



SQLAny17_Repo_03.png

Choose the visualization as shown.


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Drag Amount to Tooltips as shown.



SQLAny17_Repo_05.png

Now when you hover over the graph you get to see the tool tip. The repeated data is because Amount is both in Value and Tooltips fields.


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