web
You’re offline. This is a read only version of the page.
close
Skip to main content

Announcements

News and Announcements icon
Community site session details

Community site session details

Session Id :
Power Platform Community / Forums / Power Apps / Excel Power Query - us...
Power Apps
Unanswered

Excel Power Query - use Access passthrough query as source

(1) ShareShare
ReportReport
Posted on by 4

Hi, For security reasons beyond my control we're not permitted to directly query our SQL server database. Instead we have to query the sql database via Access, usually using passthrough queries for efficiency. Various Excel workbooks then connect to Access to load the query results. This works well as all our queries are in central location.

 

What I'm stuggling with is using a passthrough query as a source for Power Pivot; I get a this table can't be found error. I know I can connect to the passthrough query and output into an excel table and then subsequently use that table as a source but I'd prefer to just load the passthrough query into the data model. I feel like this should be achievable and I'm just missing something simple but at the same time I get the feeling that Power Pivot itself wants to be the one to load and query all the tables internally.

 

Can anyone suggest what I need to do get Power Pivot to do what it's told and use the results of the existing passthrough query as the source?

 

Note: advised to post here from answers.microsoft.com

Categories:
I have the same question (0)

Under review

Thank you for your reply! To ensure a great experience for everyone, your content is awaiting approval by our Community Managers. Please check back later.

Helpful resources

Quick Links

Introducing the 2026 Season 1 community Super Users

Congratulations to our 2026 Super Users!

Kudos to our 2025 Community Spotlight Honorees

Congratulations to our 2025 community superstars!

Congratulations to the April Top 10 Community Leaders!

These are the community rock stars!

Leaderboard > Power Apps

#1
Vish WR Profile Picture

Vish WR 610

#2
Haque Profile Picture

Haque 317

#3
WarrenBelz Profile Picture

WarrenBelz 315 Most Valuable Professional

Last 30 days Overall leaderboard