PowerBI and Cloud Fetch

[sondrewb]

In recent blog post posts (here and here) Databricks promotes a way of making BI queries to Databricks faster. It requires a runtime of 8.3 or higher, but what is required on the PowerBI side of things if one uses the databricks connector? Does that connector run the newest ODBC Simba driver (2.6.17) which is required to get the improved query performance? Or does one have to use a custom ODBC connection in Power BI to utilize Cloud Fetch?

[Kaniz_Fatma]

Hi @ sondrewb! My name is Kaniz, and I'm the technical moderator here. Great to meet you, and thanks for your question! Let's see if your peers on the community have an answer to your question first. Or else I will follow up with my team and get back to you soon.Thanks.

[Navya_R · Accepted solution]

Hi @sondrewb​ 

The latest version of PowerBI is shipped with Databricks Connector running 2.6.17 ODBC Driver and therefore can be used to utilize Cloud Fetch