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ODBC error

while trying to refresht the PowerBI dashboard against snowflake database ,getting an below error.

 

ODBC: ERROR [HY000] [Microsoft][Support] (50311) Error converting invalid input with source encoding UTF-8 using ICU. Rejected bytes began with: 9620.

 

what is the issue with this?

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v-xuding-msft
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Please check if there is any non UTD-8 character in snowflake databaseYou can use validate_utf8 function to validate if all the string columns have valid UTF8. If not, it will return an error. 

E.g:  select validate_utf8('hello');

 

If that can't work for you, Please reinstall the latest version of ODBC driver to have a try.

 

Best Regards,
Xue Ding
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