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kcoyle11
New Member
10 years ago

Data Source Only showing one table

Hello I am connecting to a data source through odbc connection. The connection previously worked fine but it is now showing only one of the tables in the Database. Any ideas??

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  • arify's avatar
    arify
    Microsoft Employee

    Hi,

     

    What's the datasource? Can you show us a few screen shots?

     

    Thanks

  • ankitpatira's avatar
    ankitpatira
    Community Champion

    kcoyle11 If you're connecting via ODBC and straight from power bi desktop entering connection strnig then you can try going through DSN option where create system DSN first and use that in power bi destkop. If you are already using DSN then avoid that route and enter connecting string for ODBC straight in power bi. You can try both ways to see which ones fix your problem. I have seen this worked for me previously when connecting to database for which there isn't in-built connector.

    • arify's avatar
      arify
      Microsoft Employee

      Can you please give us some more information?

       

      Some screenshots, ODBC traces etc?

       

      Thanks

  • Hi. I am facing the same problem as kcoyle11.

    When I am using Power BI Desktop (Version: 2.36.4434.362 32-bit (junho de 2016)) it connects through ODBC to the Firebird database, but shows only one table (the first one). The database I am accessing has 466 tables.

     

    I am using Firebird 2.5.1.26351 (Win32), Firebird ODBC 2.0.4.155_Win32. I have created a DSN in ODBC Admin. The test connection is successful either the connection using Excel 2016 and Access 2016 through ODBC. In both cases they show me all tables.

    I have tried to use the "Connection string" instead of DSN, but it does not work either.

     

    Could you help us in founding out the problem? Thanks.

     

     

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    • arify's avatar
      arify
      Microsoft Employee

      Hi,

       

      Can you send us a frown? We'll need some traces. Also, can you turn off HierarchicalNavigation? The way to do that is: Go to Advanced editor and change HierarchicalNavigation=true to false.

       

      Thanks

      • marcopaulo's avatar
        marcopaulo
        New Member

        Hi, @arify. Thank you for your reply.

         

        Sorry, but what is a "frown"? How can I sent it to you? Also, I can not find where to apply your instruction "Go to Advanced editor and change HierarchicalNavigation".

         

        Please give more instructions.

        Thanks.

         

  • Hi arify,

    since the Power BI August version was released the problem with Firebird ODBC seems to be solved. Now all the tables are been showed when using Get Data instead of only one.

     

    Thank you for your assistance.

     

    My best,

    Marco Paulo.

     

    • arify's avatar
      arify
      Microsoft Employee

      Yes, we handled that issue, thanks to your bug report :) I'm glad to hear it works now.