You plan to build a Power BI report that will display a fact table containing approximately 120 million rows stored in Azure SQL Database. The data changes every few minutes and the business requires that visuals reflect changes within five minutes of their occurrence. The organization uses shared (non-Premium) Power BI capacity. Which connection mode should you use for the dataset?
DirectQuery keeps no copy of the source data in the Power BI service. Each time a user interacts with a visual, a query is sent to the underlying Azure SQL Database, so the report can surface changes almost immediately. Import mode would exceed the 1-GB dataset limit on shared capacity and can only refresh on a schedule, so changes would not appear within five minutes. A live connection targets an existing Analysis Services model, which you do not have, and incremental refresh still relies on Import storage, so the size and latency requirements would not be met.
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