Confused about Power BI workspace roles? Learn what Admin, Member, Contributor, and Viewer can do with simple explanations, real-world examples, and a quick quiz.
When connecting data in Power BI, you may come across terms like Import, DirectQuery, Dual, Hybrid, Direct Lake, and Live Connection. At first, they can sound like six different ways of doing the same thing. But they actually solve different problems. Some determine how Power BI stores or accesses data. Some combine multiple storage behaviors. And Live Connection is slightly different again—it describes how a report connects to an existing semantic model. So how do you know w