Our current architecture for reporting and dashboarding is similar to the following:
[Sql Azure] <-> [Azure Analysis Services (AAS)] <-> [Power BI]
We have almost 30 Power BI Pro Licenses (no Premium Tier)
As we migrate our on-premise data feeds to ADLS Gen2 with Data Factory and Databricks (in the long run, we will dismiss SQL Azure DBs), we investigate how to connect Power BI to the delta tables.
Several approaches suggest using SQL Databricks endpoints for this purpose:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkI4QZ6FKbI&t=604s
IMHO this is nice as long as you have a few reports. What if you have, say, 20-30? Is there a middle layer between ADLS Gen2 delta tables and Power BI for a scalable and efficient tabular model? How to define measures, calculated tables, manage relationships efficiently without the hassle of doing this from scratch in every single .pbix?
[ADLS Gen2] <-> [?] <-> [Power BI]
As far as I can tell, no AAS Direct Query is allowed in this scenario: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/analysis-services/analysis-services-datasource
Is there a workaround to avoid the use of Azure Synapse Analytics? We are not using it, and I am afraid we will not include it in the roadmap.
Thanks in advance for your invaluable piece of advice
