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Connecting to a SQL server instance from PBI desktop with out having SQL server installed on the pc
HI everyone, I have a user who wantes to connect an instance of SQL server from their Power BI desktop but they get following error: "A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while ...
Thank you for your reply sergej_og
However, it is not the case for us because all servers are local and we don't have any instance of SQL in cloud!
On the other hand the DB admin confirms that they added this user on the "allowed" list to access all the DBs under this instance of local SQL Database, but as I mentioned the error yet persists!
can you please suggest more solutions other than what we tried as per my above message?
Anonymous
To access on-prem SQL Server you have to enable communication between your lokal host (e.g. your notebook) and the SQL Server. Maybe you have to make a firewall rule etc.
Enable port 1433 for access - it is default port for SQL Server