DirectQuery with Tabular Models

DirectQuery is a deployment option available in Tabular Models, which allows the developer to use the relational data instead of the in-memory data in the model. This feature is still immature and needs to be understood to determine how this can be used.

Data sources

DirectQuery can only use SQL Server and SQL Server PDW databases as sources. No other relational or non-relational sources are supported including Oracle, SQL Server Analysis Services or files. In this case, using DirectQuery would be valuable if using a SQL Server data source and either real-time changes or large data volume are required in your solution.

Security

The role-based security in the Tabular Model is not supported with DirectQuery. The security ...

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