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Hi everyone!
I would like to connect to a MySQL DB but I cannot. I tried it as MySQL and MariaDB as well.
Power BI version: 2.122.746.0 64-bit (2023. october)
MySQL connector-net version: 8.1.0 (latest)
MariaDB connector-odbc version: 3.1.19-win64 (latest)
If I try to connect as MySQL DB, the answer will be this one:
As a matter of fact, I tried it with older version as well (8.0.28), but in the end the answer was there is an issue with nulls or something like that.
If I try to connect as MariaDB, the answer will be this one in the Power Query:
I know the problem is null values, but how can I deal with it? MySQL would be better because I could run a query before loading.
Thanks for any advice!
Kind regards,
Tamas Praviczki
Downgrade to 8.0.28
It doesn't work. I tried it and it couldn't deal with nulls. I mean Power BI doesn't connect to DB. However, with HeidiSQL I can read the table without any issue and it contains nulls.
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