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Open a new Power BI Desktop file (.pbix) and create parameters for the source servers and databases.
Create queries against the admin and BI/DW databases with the Sql.Database() function and these parameters.

Server and database parameters and Queries with Load Disabled

As per some of the previous recipes, Power BI does not isolate data sources from individual queries by default, and thus dedicated database queries are used to expose table and view objects. Individual queries reference these database queries such that many queries can be adjusted by modifying the server and database parameter values referenced by the database ...

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