# Elasticsearch and PowerBI **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 6, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-powerbi/236059 "2020-06-06T20:51:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![coding\_martian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@coding\_martian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/coding_martian)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-powerbi/236059/1 "2020-06-06T20:51:43Z")
I'm building a product in PowerBI, and want to implement full text search across a set of documents stored in elasticsearch. I'm interested in using this connector to do this in PowerBI: [link](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/sql-client-apps-powerbi.html) It's unclear to me if this connector allows me to send search queries to elasticsearch, or if it just allows us to import the table into PowerBI. Can someone clarify this? ---
**Author:** ![forloop](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/forloop/32/9021_2.png) [@forloop](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/forloop)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-powerbi/236059/2 "2020-06-07T08:54:28Z")
Hi @coding_martian, the ODBC driver allows you to [connect Elasticsearch as a data source for Power BI](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/desktop-connect-using-generic-interfaces). It allows you to send SQL queries to Elasticsearch to fetch data using the ODBC driver. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-powerbi/236059/3 "2020-07-05T08:54:34Z")
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