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Microsoft Power Bi to MotherDuck integration — real-time data sync

Keep Microsoft Power Bi and MotherDuck in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Microsoft Power Bi and MotherDuck

Flow Microsoft Power Bi data into MotherDuck in real time — no exports, no schedulers, no custom scripts.

Microsoft Power Bi is a read-only source: Stacksync reads its data in real time and delivers it into MotherDuck, so MotherDuck always reflects the current state of Microsoft Power Bi — without exports, scripts, or schedulers.

Microsoft Power Bi is where teams explore, visualize, and report; MotherDuck is the store of record that holds the raw tables and full history behind those views. The two overlap wherever the same events, users, and metrics matter to both, and when the bridge between them is a nightly export or a hand-built extract, dashboards lag the warehouse and analysts spend the morning arguing over whose number is right.

Common use cases

  • 01 Load dataset Refresh History into an operational database to alert on-call teams when scheduled refreshes fail or run long.
  • 02 Sync admin Activity Events into a warehouse for tenant-wide security, access, and usage reporting.
  • 03 Share curated, synced datasets with other teams through read-only database shares
  • 04 Land CRM and operational database records in MotherDuck so a small team gets warehouse-style analytics without cluster management

Common sync patterns

Corrections propagate instead of reloading

When a record is fixed or backfilled on one side, the change reaches the other without a full reload, keeping history consistent across both.

One number both sides agree on

Metrics and aggregates stay aligned between the two systems, so a figure shown in Microsoft Power Bi matches the MotherDuck table it was built from instead of drifting between refreshes.

Where MotherDuck holds the source tables: live data in the reporting layer

Records maintained in MotherDuck flow into Microsoft Power Bi as they change, so dashboards and reports read current rows rather than an overnight extract.

What you can sync between Microsoft Power Bi and MotherDuck

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Microsoft Power Bi objects MotherDuck objects How this pairing syncs
Dashboards and Tiles Dashboards and their pinned tiles read via GET /dashboards and /dashboards/{id}/tiles; inventoried to map dashboard content back to its source datasets. Tables The main landing target for synced records and source for analysis. Dashboards and Tiles is specific to Microsoft Power Bi and Tables to MotherDuck — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Dataflows Power Query ETL definitions read via GET /groups/{id}/dataflows; used to document lineage from upstream sources into datasets. Views Modeled projections used as outbound sync sources. Dataflows is specific to Microsoft Power Bi and Views to MotherDuck — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Datasources and Gateways The connections behind datasets and dataflows and the on-premises gateways serving them, read via REST for lineage and dependency mapping. Database Shares Read-only copies of a database shared with other users or teams. Datasources and Gateways is specific to Microsoft Power Bi and Database Shares to MotherDuck — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Refresh History Dataset refresh runs read via GET /datasets/{id}/refreshes, including status, type, and timing, to alert on failed or slow scheduled refreshes. Attached Local DuckDB Databases Local files attached alongside cloud databases for hybrid queries. Refresh History is specific to Microsoft Power Bi and Attached Local DuckDB Databases to MotherDuck — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Workspaces (Groups) Containers for content read via GET /groups (tenant-wide via GET /admin/groups); mirrored to reproduce the tenant's content hierarchy in a catalog. Databases Cloud-hosted DuckDB databases that scope a sync's reads and writes. Workspaces (Groups) is specific to Microsoft Power Bi and Databases to MotherDuck — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Activity Events (Audit Log) Admin audit log of user and content actions read via GET /admin/activityevents; loaded for security, access, and usage reporting across the tenant. Schemas Namespaces within a database used to organize synced tables. Activity Events (Audit Log) is specific to Microsoft Power Bi and Schemas to MotherDuck — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Microsoft Power Bi and MotherDuck

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Microsoft Power Bi MotherDuck Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Microsoft Power Bi for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Pull-based: no webhooks or change-data-capture.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to MotherDuck as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

MotherDuck Microsoft Power Bi Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls MotherDuck for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling.

DeliveryMicrosoft Power Bi does not accept inbound record writes, so this direction carries requests rather than records: Microsoft Power Bi's output flows back as field updates on the originating MotherDuck records.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Microsoft Power Bi: Endpoints throttle per user and per app and return HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header. Execute Queries allows up to 120 requests per minute per user and caps a query at 100,000 rows (or 1,000,000 values) and 15 MB; admin scanner metadata APIs are limited to about 500 requests per hour with 16 concurrent.
  • MotherDuck: Subject to the platform's compute and concurrency limits rather than per-request API rate limits.
What ships with Microsoft Power Bi ⇄ MotherDuck

Connect Microsoft Power Bi and MotherDuck for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Microsoft Power Bi–MotherDuck connection.

Real-time

Real-time sync

Changes in Microsoft Power Bi or MotherDuck instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Microsoft Power Bi or MotherDuck data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Microsoft Power Bi or MotherDuck record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Microsoft Power Bi ⇄ MotherDuck sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Microsoft Power Bi and MotherDuck.

How the Microsoft Power Bi and MotherDuck connectors work

Microsoft Power Bi

Integration surface
Power BI REST API, including the Execute Queries (DAX) endpoint and admin scanner APIs; a read-write XMLA endpoint is available on Premium, Premium-Per-User, and Fabric capacity.
Authentication
Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens. Supports delegated user tokens and app-only service principals; service principals must be enabled under the tenant's Developer settings and granted workspace access. Tenant-wide admin reads require the Tenant.Read.All scope.
Change detection
Pull-based: no webhooks or change-data-capture. Content is polled via REST list endpoints, dataset changes are inferred from Refresh History and the admin Activity Events audit log, and the scanner API's GetModifiedWorkspaces reports workspaces changed since a given time.
Capabilities
read
Rate limits
Endpoints throttle per user and per app and return HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header. Execute Queries allows up to 120 requests per minute per user and caps a query at 100,000 rows (or 1,000,000 values) and 15 MB; admin scanner metadata APIs are limited to about 500 requests per hour with 16 concurrent.

MotherDuck

Integration surface
SQL through DuckDB clients and drivers using a MotherDuck (md:) connection
Authentication
Access token created in MotherDuck (Settings > General > Create Token), pasted into Stacksync; database name and schema configurable if not using defaults
Change detection
Polling; no log-based CDC or webhook surface is exposed
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's compute and concurrency limits rather than per-request API rate limits
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How it works

How to connect Microsoft Power Bi to MotherDuck — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Microsoft Power Bi and MotherDuck with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Microsoft Power Bi connected
    MotherDuck connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Microsoft Power Bi and MotherDuck objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Microsoft Power Bi ⇄ MotherDuck
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Microsoft Power Bi MotherDuck
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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Alerts

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