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eperrone
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5 years ago
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Connecting to Postgres - New and Confused

Hi folks,   New to PowerBI and trying to figure out how to connect to a PostgreSQL databae hosted on AWS RDS.  I was able to get an odbc driver installed and it seems to connect but when I go to hi...
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    eperrone
    5 years ago

    Hey folks,

     

    IO found out that my PowerBI was very old and updated to the laest version.  The Postgres native connection worked right out of the box (I had to clear the encrypt connections to now use SSL) but other that it works great.

     

    Thanks for all the help.

    Eric

     

     

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eperrone
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5 years ago

Update on this so I went back to the ODBC connector and just waited it out and eventually the data set did populate and return data.  It seemed to be hung up when it appears it was just takeing a very long time to populate.  (>30 min).  I'll have to see if I can speed that up somehow.

 

Thanks