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I am trying to connect Postgres SQL DB hosted on an Azure Server to Power BI and getting certificate error
"An error happened while reading data from the provider: 'The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure.'"
Thank you for the replay but my Postgres SQL DB hosted on an Azure Server and the sulotion is for AWS .
I tryied this sulotion but its not working for me .
Thank You !!
Lior
Hi @Lior0707 ,
The PostgresSQL connector doesn't work out of the box, you need to do quite a few things first
1. Install Npgsql which allows .NET access to PostgresSQL. I installed it using the Pakagae Manager Console in Visual Studio; detailed instructions are here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Npgsql/
You need to connect over SSL to AWS which isn't setup by default (on my Windows 10 machine anway)
2. Download the AWS public key from here https://s3.amazonaws.com/rds-downloads/rds-combined-ca-bundle.pem
3. Convert that to a certificate using https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-converter.html (convert to PKCS#7/P7B)
4. Import that certificate to the Trusted Room Certificate described here http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~gsw2c/GridToolsDir/Documentation/ImportTrustedCertificates.htm
5. Test access from Power BI desktop using the PostgresSQL connector and it should work
This is the related document, you can view this content:
Best Regards,
Liu Yang
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Thank you for the replay but my Postgres SQL DB hosted on an Azure Server and the sulotion is for AWS .
I tryied this sulotion but its not working for me .
Thank You !!
Lior
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