"An error happened while reading data from the provider: 'The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Data.S

Installed PowerBI desktop (x64) (clean install) last week (didn't note the version installed) and played around with local data file sources, all ok. Today I attempted to connect to a SQL database ...

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v-lili6-msft

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5 years ago

hi Anonymous

Please refer to this same post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerBI/comments/jwctaa/powerbi_error_the_type_initializer_for/

I have found that if you're using the Microsoft Store Power BI Desktop App it's causing those errors. By using the Microsoft manual download one it's not throwing those errors

Regards,

Lin

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