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Snowflake connector: "We cannot convert the value null to type Text"
- 3 months ago
Also i recieved reply from Snowflake
After investigation across multiple cases reporting the same issue, engineering has confirmed that this is a regression in the Power BI Desktop June 2026 release (2.155.756.0) — not a Snowflake-side change. The SNOWFLAKE application database has always returned empty owner/owner_role_type fields for APPLICATION-type databases, but the June release of Power BI Desktop introduced a change in how the connector handles null values during database enumeration, causing the "We cannot convert the value null to type Text" error.
Resolution:
Rolling back to the May or April 2026 version of Power BI Desktop resolves the issue immediately. You can download previous versions from Microsoft's Power BI Desktop release archive.
Also i recieved reply from Snowflake
After investigation across multiple cases reporting the same issue, engineering has confirmed that this is a regression in the Power BI Desktop June 2026 release (2.155.756.0) — not a Snowflake-side change. The SNOWFLAKE application database has always returned empty owner/owner_role_type fields for APPLICATION-type databases, but the June release of Power BI Desktop introduced a change in how the connector handles null values during database enumeration, causing the "We cannot convert the value null to type Text" error.
Resolution:
Rolling back to the May or April 2026 version of Power BI Desktop resolves the issue immediately. You can download previous versions from Microsoft's Power BI Desktop release archive.
- ahickey2 months agoNew Member
Thanks for posting this. Do we know if there is a ticket/bug open with them for a future release?