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Anonymous
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8 years ago

Bing News Solution Template - Azure SQL Connection issue

Hi all,   I have just gone through all of the steps to set up the Bings News Solution template and was very excited to try it out. I completed everything and downloaded the PowerBI Report and follo...
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v-yulgu-msft
Microsoft Employee
8 years ago

Hi Anonymous,

 

Update your Power BI desktop to latest version for a test. Are you able to connect to Azure SQL DB in a new .pbix file or in Excel?

 

Here are some links sharing suggestions of troubleshooting such an error:

Resolving could not open a connection to SQL Server errors

SQL Connection error - Named Pipes

Exceptions connecting to SQL Azure: "A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server"

 

Regards,

Yuliana Gu

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    Anonymous
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    8 years ago

    Hi, thanks for your response.

     

    I am using the latest version of PowerBI, as far as I can tell the Azure SQL DB is configured correctly but I have been unsuccesful in connecting to it from any application. PowerBI, Excel, Visual Studio. They all return the same error as above, which appears to be a timeout error.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Will