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I've had several Power BI reports running in my environment and refreshing with no issues. However, now when I go to refresh data within Power BI desktop, I'm getting "OLE DB or ODBC error". That's it. There is literally no additional details or error messages.
I've tried several different Power BI reports (they are all using SQL as the backend) but I tried several different SQL instances and got the same error.
I even tried creating a brand-new Power BI report and got the same error.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Things I've done:
Solved! Go to Solution.
Okay, I solved it myself.
I had to completely uninstall and re-install PBI desktop and now it's working.
Okay, I solved it myself.
I had to completely uninstall and re-install PBI desktop and now it's working.