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Hi What would be my server name?
i tried localhost, localhost:3306 and still unable to connect.
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@akwang wrote:
hi smoupre,
i did that and still i cannot connect.
For above error, please ensure that you've specified the correct server name, it could be servierIP:portNo("10.157.19.199:3306") or ServerName. Also ensure that the MySQL Service is running on the server you're connecting to.
Last time I had an issue connecting to MySQL with Power BI, I had to make sure that I was not trying to use Windows credentials but rather database credentials. And it looks like localhost is your server name.
hi smoupre,
i did that and still i cannot connect.
I can recommend setting up ODBC driver on the machine running mysql - such as https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/5.3.html
Any tutorial on how to use the ODBC?
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