Question

What are the Data sources for the Power BI?

Answer 1

Data source	Description
Excel (.xlsx, xlxm)	A workbook can have data entered manually or data, which is queried and loaded from external data sources.
Comma Separated Value (.csv)	Files are simple text files with rows of data. Every row can contain one or more values, which is separated by a comma.
Power BI Desktop (.pbi)	You can use Power BI Desktop to query and load data from external data sources.
Databases in the Cloud	It allows you to connect live to Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, etc.
Databases on-premises	You can connect directly to SQL Server Analysis Services Relational model databases. A Power BI Enterprise Gateway is required.