We've just changed how our Power BI service acquires data, and it's now directly connected to an Azure SQL Database. Now when I try to access it in teh portal I get a notice saying something along the lines "This report contains Power BI PRO content" - we don't have PRO licences, so we can't properly use the portal.
I looked up the Pro definition, and the first line is:
* Data from a DirectQuery dataset, such as SQL Server Analysis Services tabular data, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, or Apache Spark for HDInsight
We are using an Azure SQL Database, but we're not actually using DirectQuery, we are importing the data into the report. Should this still require a Pro licence, or am I missing something?
If the content is indeed intended to be Pro even if the data loading method is 'Import', what other options do I have? Would Azure Table Storage also require a Pro licence? Would it be slower to load the report using it?
EDIT: It seems that if I turn off a scheduled daily refresh, the Pro notice goes away. However that same page says you only need a Pro licence to schedule hourly refreshes - Daily seems fine. The notes in the Power BI Pro page also seems to point that daily refreshes are fine. I have done a couple of manual refreshes in the last 24h for testing purposes, but I don't imagine this would be the issue.