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jibran
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9 years ago
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Remove the data source

Hi,   How can I remove previous data sources in Power BI Desktop. Actually I am getting an error when I try to connect to Oracle Database since morning, actually we upgrade database and add new po...
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  • v-qiuyu-msft's avatar
    v-qiuyu-msft
    9 years ago

    Hi jibran,

     

    You can remove the data sources in the current file or previous used data sources in desktop. You can go to File-> Options and settings-> Data source settings loike below:

     

    Best Regards,
    Qiuyun Yu

     

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v-qiuyu-msft
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9 years ago

Hi jibran,

 

You can remove the data sources in the current file or previous used data sources in desktop. You can go to File-> Options and settings-> Data source settings loike below:

 

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu

 

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garrek99
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9 years ago

I have a similar problem and was hoping you could help.

 

I have 2 data sources in the Data Source Settings page (like the one in your image). And the sources are the same except one is in all caps and one isn't. For some reason Power BI sees these 2 as distinct even though the connection strings are identical (password and uname). Because of this the Delete command is just ignored. I tried deleting either and realized I can try deleting both at the same time but nothing works.

 

Any ideas? 

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    RossSciarrillo
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    4 years ago

    I had the same issue, and it turned out that half of my data was pointing to a file path in one format (full UNC path), and the other data was pointing to a file path with my coded file server name. e.g., "Z:\".

     

    If you Right Click-> Advanced Editor on your Query in the transofrm window, it will show you the path of your selected query, which you can then normalize to your preferred format.