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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Error while trying to connect to same Database Server having 2 different versions of PBI desktop

Hi all: Good day! Earlier I installed "May version" of Power BI Desktop in my machine going through the Request SW channel in my company and developed a dashboard! Now, we can install latest version ...
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v-zhenbw-msft
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5 years ago

Hi Anonymous ,

 

The error is caused maybe not the 2 different versions of Power BI Desktop.

To connect to an Oracle database with Power BI Desktop, the correct Oracle client software must be installed on the computer running Power BI Desktop.

This mean that if you have the 64-bit Oracle client, you need to install the 64-bit version of Power BI Desktop.

Please check the version of your Oracle client and Power Bi Desktop.

 

Please refer the troubleshooting in this document.

 

Best regards,

 

Community Support Team _ zhenbw

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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Hi v-zhenbw-msft : good day! Thanks a lot for your response. 🙂 I already have 64 bit Oracle client [had to get it first time I tried to connect to Oracle DB with my prev version of PBI desktop, 64 bit]. This current version of PBI desktop [Nov version] is also 64-bit! So, I don't think this is the issue with right n-bit of Oracle client! 

Any more suggestion would highly be appreciated! 🙂