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The Power BI XMLA ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live data from Power BI XMLA, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.

Access Power BI XMLA data like you would a database - read, write, and update Power BI XMLA FALSE, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.

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Viewing Power BI XMLA Data in RAD Studio Data Explorer


How to view Power BI XMLA data in RAD Studio Data Explorer using the CData ODBC Driver for Power BI XMLA.

Embarcadero RAD Studio provides a development environment for Delphi and C++Builder applications. With the CData ODBC Driver for Power BI XMLA, you gain access to live Power BI XMLA data within RAD Studio, abstracting the data into tables, views, and stored procedures that can be used to both retrieve Power BI XMLA data. This article will walk through connecting to Power BI XMLA using the Data Explorer.

Configure a Connection to Power BI XMLA

If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.

By default, use Azure AD to connect to Microsoft Power BI XMLA. Azure AD is Microsoft’s multi-tenant, cloud-based directory and identity management service. It is user-based authentication that requires that you set AuthScheme to AzureAD.

For more information on other authentication schemes, refer to the Help documentation.

Connecting to Power BI XMLA Data Using Data Explorer

You can create a simple application for displaying Power BI XMLA data by utilizing the CData FireDAC Components for Power BI XMLA and a new VCL Forms Application:

  1. Open the Data Explorer in RAD Studio and expand FireDAC.
  2. Right-click the ODBC Data Source node in the Data Explorer.
  3. Click Add New Connection.
  4. Enter a name for the connection.
  5. In the FireDAC Connection Editor that appears, set the DataSource property to the name of the ODBC DSN for Power BI XMLA.
  6. Back in the Data Explorer, expand the views for the connection.

  7. Create a new VCL Forms application and drag a view (for example: Customer) onto the form.

  8. Select the CustomerView object on the form and set the Active property to true.

  9. Right-click on the object, bind visually, and link everything (*) to a new control (TStringGrid).

  10. Arrange the TStringGrid on the form and run the application to see the Customer data.