In our Azure Data Lake Storage we have data stored in parquet files. Reading this data in PowerBI is not that hard. In this post I'll walk you through the steps to get this done.
Start by opening PowerBI and click on Get data from another source.
Choose Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 from the list of available sources and click on Connect.
Enter the url of your Azure Data Lake Storage and click on OK.
Now you get a list of available files found in the data lake.
We don’t want to use these files directly but transform them, so click on Transform Data. This will open up the Power Query editor. Click here on Binary next to the parquet file we want to extract. This will add an extra step to our Power Query that parses the parquet file and extracts all the data.Click on Close & Apply to apply the changes to our query and start using the results.
That’s it!
More information
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 - Power Query | Microsoft Learn
Analyze data in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 by using Power BI - Power Query | Microsoft Learn