For a fresh start, our journey will begin with the Get Data link on the upper-left part of the welcome screen. You'll be presented with a dialog window with a large variety of available data sources, which you can add to your Power BI model. Based on the available data, we can then create the Power BI Report, which is a set of visual components and their interactions.
As you can see on the dialog, even if you filter out just the Database type of data sources, there's still a plenty of choices for you. The first one listed is the SQL Server database. This one expects a SQL Server to be running locally. If you have ...