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Power BI SSH Tunneling
Hi,
I am currently using the free version of Power BI in Windows 10.
Please let me know how to query data from a MySQL database with SSH tunneling.
Thank you.
4 Replies
It's possible to do it.
But you need to open a ssh tunnel with a tool like putty and forwarding ports.
It worked for me following this tuto
https://www.a2hosting.com/kb/developer-corner/mysql/remote-mysql-connections
- psdhillon1
Helper I
Hey ptacquet, Can you help me. I am struck in same boat. We have got bastion server firewall between MySQL server which needs to be accessed through ssh with VPN using pem/ppk files. I have been able to connect trough putty. In putty, i can see the databases etc through ssh. But i am not able to get database connected to powerbi. I am missing some forwarding ports stuff i think. Can you help me with some lead/clues
MaxWAdvocate II
Hi Kwonsok,
I am not aware of a way to configure two stage authentication in powerBI (I.e SSH into server and login to database). I had a similar requirement to query a PostgreSQL database on a headless linux server, which required using a SSH key file.
If there's a better way I'd like to know myself, but the workaround I used was to use the PuTTY command line tools 'plink' and 'pscp' in a daily job to populate a .csv file with my query and transfer it to my reporting server. You could use the .csv file as is, but I have another job to import the .csv into a SQL Server table.
I did consider trying to make a linked server but I had spent enough time already and I only needed one query. It works well although obviously not great for large amounts of data.
v-juanli-msftCommunity Support
Hi kwonsok
Based on my research , Power BI does not support a MySQL database with SSH tunneling.
There is a similar idea about this issue, please vote it up.
Additionaly, please read the discussion under it, someone provided a workaround.
Best regards
Maggie
