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wonga
Continued Contributor
10 years ago

Connect to OBIEE RPD using ODBC Connection

I'm trying to connect to the repository for OBIEE using an ODBC connection and the list of subject areas appears to load in Power BI, but I am unable to load any data into Power BI in order to make v...
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arify
Microsoft Employee
10 years ago

wongain that case, you might need to wait for the fix to be released. Meanwhile, can you still do that just so we can diagnose the problem correctly and make sure we're not missing another problem?

 

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arify
Microsoft Employee
10 years ago

wonga, we have another customer who is using the same driver & datasource but they aren't getting this failure. In Excel, there are 2 things you can use to connect to ODBC, under Data tab, they're called "Microsoft Query" and "Data Connection Wizard". Can you try to connect with them and let us know if that works?

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    wonga
    Continued Contributor
    10 years ago

    arify I only had 32-Bit versions of Office to test with and it isn't able to load any tables (says something along the lines of "There are no visible tables"). There might be something in the Oracle RPD that is not exposing the tables to 3rd party applications possibly...