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Hello Experts,
I am trying to connect to dev environment of the SQL databse from Power BI desktop and I am seeing the following error:
I can access the same database using the same credentials using SQL server management Studio, but not through Power BI. Any ideas why?
Thank you!
I normally get this error when I misspell or have a typo in my server name - so quadruple check that everything there is correct. I don't think it's a credentials issue.
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