How can we open .sas7bdat files using Power BI? The solution I know is to convert to .csv files. What are the other ways? Does .xptfile work during import?
Thanks,
Rajesh.
I would recommend using Python in Power BI with the Pandas library to load a SAS dataset. I have minimal experience with Pandas and SAS, but I dont recall it being too terribly complex.
In my experience you are better off uploading your SAS data into SQL Server which Power BI works well with.
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