Fast Suggestions, Energy BI Desktop, Question Parameters, Half 4, Passing Energy Question Parameter Values to SQL Server Saved Procedures

I’ve written 3 blogposts about question parameters previously.

• Energy BI Desktop Question Parameters, Half 1, Introduction
• Energy BI Desktop Question Parameters, Part2, Dynamic Knowledge Masking and Question Parameters
• Energy BI Desktop Question Parameters, Half 3, Listing Output

That is the fourth one within the type of Fast Suggestions. Right here is the state of affairs. One in all my prospects had a requirement to get knowledge from a Saved Process from SQL Server. She required to move the values from a Question Parameter again to SQL Server and get the leads to Energy BI.

The answer is considerably straightforward. I created a easy saved process in AdventureWorksDW2019 as beneath:

CREATE PROCEDURE SP_Sales_by_Date 
	@date int
AS
BEGIN
	SET NOCOUNT ON;
	SELECT *
	FROM [dbo].[FactInternetSales]
	WHERE OrderDateKey >= @date
END
GO

In Energy BI Desktop, get knowledge from SQL Server, then:

• Enter Server identify
• Enter Database identify
• Choose Knowledge Connectivity Mode
• Broaden the Superior choices
• Kind in a SQL assertion to name the saved process like beneath:

exec SP_Sales_by_Date @date = 20140101

• Click on OK

• Click on Remodel Knowledge

Now we have to create a Question Parameter. In my pattern I create a DateKey in Decimal Quantity knowledge sort:

At this level it’s important to modify the Energy Question expression both from the Method Bar or from Superior Editor. We truncate the T-SQL assertion after the @date, then we concatenate the Question string with the Question Parameter identify. If the Question Parameter knowledge sort isn’t Textual content then we’ve got to transform it to Textual content. In my pattern, the information sort is Quantity, due to this fact I take advantage of Textual content.From() operate.

Here’s a screenshot of the Energy Question expression earlier than altering the code:

The Energy Question expression is:

Sql.Database(".sql2019", "AdventureWorksDW2019", [Query="exec SP_Sales_by_Date @date = 20140101"])

• Change the code as beneath:

Sql.Database(".sql2019", "AdventureWorksDW2019", [Query="exec SP_Sales_by_Date @date " & Text.From(DateKey)])

• Click on Edit Permission

• Click on Run

• That’s it. Right here is the outcomes:

We will use this methodology to parameterise another T-SQL statements in Energy BI with Question Parameters.

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