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Shapiran
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Connecting to Databricks with passthrough enabled

Hi,

 

I would like to connect to databricks, but would like to use passthrough, hence get my user permissions in the data lake.

I'm connected using Spark connector - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/integrations/bi/power-bi.

I can connect but when trying to get data from the data lake I'm getting the following error message:

Could not find ADLS Gen1 Token.

To my understanding the connector not supporting passthrough credential - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/integrations/bi/jdbc-odbc-bi.

Is therea way to connect to Databricks from Power BI using credentials passthrough?

 

Thanks,

Nir

 

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hi  @Shapiran 

You may take a look at this document:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/security/credential-passthrough/adls-passthrough#i...

 

Regards,

Lin

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If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Thanks Lin,

 

Power BI is not mentioned in the doument.

One of the limitation that is mentioned is:

The following features are not supported with Azure Data Lake Storage credential passthrough:

  • ...
  • Connecting to your cluster using JDBC/ODBC.

To my understanding the spark connector is based on JDBC/ODBC.

 

I'll appriciate if you can find a solution to connect Power BI to Databricks when passthrough is enabled (as mentioned in the document you sent).

 

Thanks,

Nir

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