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Power BI Dataflow Gen1 and Connecting to SQL DB

Koen Verbeeck lays out a warning:

I’m in the progress of migrating some legacy stuff at a client, and in their Power BI environment there are still quite some Power BI dataflows Gen1. I had migrated an Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool to an Azure SQL DB (much cheaper for their volume of data), and in the dev/test environment all dataflows were switched correctly to the new database.

However, in production, the dataflows only wanted to connect to the Azure SQL DB production database through a gateway. Weird, right? 

Click through for a rundown of the issue, as well as another one Koen ran into regarding Azure Data Lake Storage.

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